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Nearly ready , in One Volume , dtfmy 8 vo . pp . 600 , cloth , 12 s . 6 d : THE ELEMENTS OF MORAL SCIENCE theoretical anb practical ., ? ¦ By 3 STOATT POETBE , D . D ., LL . D ., > President of Yale College ; Author of e The Elements of Intellectual Philosophy , ' Books and Reading , ' & e . & c . fTTHIS treatise is intended primarily for the use of college and university JL students , and is prejDared with reference to the class room . President Porter's forty years' experience as a teacher of Moral Philosophy , and his established eminence as a writer on Philosophical subjects , furnish the most positive assurance that this book will be found to be an advance on any of the existing manuals for instruction in Ethical science . It has in view mainly students who have had some training in philosophical studies , though its expanded definitions and abundant illustrations render it independent of any other book . The Elements of Moral Science is in two parts : the first treats with great fulness < The Theory of Duty , ' and unfolds comprehensively the Psychology of the moral powers and the nature of the moral relations , and discusses the different theories and definitions that have been put forward by the leading authorities of ancient and modern times . In the consideration of the principal ethical authorities , the New Testament has its fitting rank assigned to it , and while the work may-be considered in other respects the most complete and it scholarl gives y to treatise the theore available tic import for students and , value it is probabl of the y Christian unique in ethics the prominence considered ui their claims to human excellence and human authority . The second division , < The Practice of Duty or Ethics , ' takes up the different classes of duties with a view to the practical application of the principles o This * moral part science is unusuall to the y question interesting s arising , and in is marked every department by sagacious of human and clear activity dis- . crimination , united with a luminous and forcible presentation of the claims of faty in accordance with the higjiest standards of conduct in all the relations of life . Mowed The themselves book has a but somewh the increased at wider attention scope than iven most of late similar to this treatises stud have and , g y , Several & e * remarkable able quickening writersof vie of ^ s thoug more ht or consequent less at variance upon with the the publication long estab by - lished princi very ples of of moral , science of , have rendered necessary a fuller and more i l ^ * mplete 0 * k is abreast discussion of the time a number and it leaves topics . no In controverted every respect point President undefended Porter . 's , I ^ _ I London : SAMPSON LOW , MABSTON , SEAKLE , & RIVINGTON , || ^^ Crown BuUdiDg «; 188 iJBleet Street , E . O . ;
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Jan. 15, 1885, page 55, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15011885/page/55/
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