THE PRINCIPLES OF MORAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. BY WILLIAM PALEY, D. D. TO THE RIGHT REVEREND EDMUND LAW D. D. LORD BISHOP OF CARLISLE. MY LORD, HAD the obligations which I owe to your Lordship's kindness been much less, or much fewer than they are; had personal gratitude left any place in my mind for deliberation or for inquiry; in selecting a name which every reader might confess to be prefixed with propriety to a work, that, in many of its parts, bears no obscure relation to the general principles of nature and revealed religion, I should have found myself directed by many considerations to that of the Bishop of Carlisle. A long life spent in the most interesting of all human pursuits, the investigation of moral and reli |