Elements of Moral Science, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Elements of Moral Science, Vol. 1 of 2

This is one of his motives to the present publication; which some are pleased to think has been too long delayed: and which is become the more excusable, as hundreds of manuscript copies of the Notes, many of them incomplete as well as incorrect, are now extant; and as several extracts from them have got, he knows not how, into print, with more imperfections, it may be, than could reasonably be imputed to the author. He begs leave to add, as another reason for making these papers public, that he has been advised to it by many persons, whose judgment and love of good learning entitle them at all times to his most respectful attention.

It will no doubt be observed, that some of the following topics, though brevity has been aimed at in all, are treated more compendiously than others. This could, he thinks, be accounted for; but not without much egotism, and a detail of particulars neither necessary nor interesting.

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