O ELEMENTS C OF MORAL SCIENCE: BY FRANCIS WAYLAND, D. D. President of Brown University, and Professor of Moral Philosophy. ABRIDGED AND ADAPTED TO THE USE OF SCHOOLS BOSTON: GOULD, KENDALL & LINCOLN. AND SOLD BY THE PRINCIPAL BOOKSELLERS THROUGHOUT 1860, mar 19, Erstf Nattrancel L. Hoop Beston, (Class of '46) Entered, according to an Act of Congress, in the year 1835, at the Clerk's Office of the District of Rhode Island, by Francis Wayland. HARVARD BOSTON: S. N. Dickinson, Printer, 52 Washington St. PREFACE. In the following work, I have attempted to present the more important truths of Moral Science, in such a form as may be useful in SCHOOLS and ACADEMIES. With this view, it has been not merely abridged, but also rewritten; the argument in general omitted, and merely the result stated; and the illustrations adapted to the comprehension of the young. The style, so far as possible, has been rendered simple; and the words and phrases selected with special reference to the ordinary language of persons not accustomed to moral speculations. Such at least has |