MORAL PHILOSOPHY: INCLUDING THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL ETHICS. BY JOSEPH HAVEN, D. D. PROFESSOR IN CHICAGO THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY; LATELY PROFESSOR OF BOSTON: GOULD AND LINCOLN, 59 WASHINGTON STREET. NEW YORK: SHELDON AND COMPANY. 1870. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by GOULD AND LINCOLN, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts. PREFACE. THE present volume is the result of the author's studies while Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy in Amherst College, and was originally prepared as a course of lectures to the senior class in that Institution. It was intended as a sequel to the author's treatise on Mental Philosophy. The favorable reception of that work by the public has induced him to give this also to the press, with the hope that it may be of service to the cause of Education. Few departments of science have so rich a literature as Moral Philosophy. And yet, by general concession, there are few good text-books of the science. Of the treatises now most generally in use in our schools and colleges, some appear deficient in thorough scientific discussion of the principles and true theory of morals; others, again, in practical detail. In some of them, under the title of Moral Philosophy, topics are discussed which more properly pertain to Psychology,-as, for example, the phenomenon of Conscience, and the problems of the Will, — while the history of ethical opinion |