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Page iii
... I foresee the period when some new and parent idea in morals , the matrix of a better order of things , shall reconcile us more completely to God , to nature , and to ourselves . " Between discoveries in physics , and , what have been.
... I foresee the period when some new and parent idea in morals , the matrix of a better order of things , shall reconcile us more completely to God , to nature , and to ourselves . " Between discoveries in physics , and , what have been.
Page vi
... things , " let him feel no disappointment , though he should hear both philosophy and ethics say , it is not in us — or human sagacity , it is not in me ; for , after all , perhaps he may find it within the narrow compass of a single ...
... things , " let him feel no disappointment , though he should hear both philosophy and ethics say , it is not in us — or human sagacity , it is not in me ; for , after all , perhaps he may find it within the narrow compass of a single ...
Page viii
... thing which can more speedily enlighten the infant mind , or regulate the more advanced periods of youth and manhood , be proposed ? What though every thing which can pro- fitably employ the vacant hour of the artisan be de- vised ? Nay ...
... thing which can more speedily enlighten the infant mind , or regulate the more advanced periods of youth and manhood , be proposed ? What though every thing which can pro- fitably employ the vacant hour of the artisan be de- vised ? Nay ...
Page ix
... things , however , it is very far from being only the lower , or the lowest orders , who are chargeable with delinquency or ne- glect . When society has been compared to a pillar , it is true , they have been considered as its base or ...
... things , however , it is very far from being only the lower , or the lowest orders , who are chargeable with delinquency or ne- glect . When society has been compared to a pillar , it is true , they have been considered as its base or ...
Page x
... things , from good to ill , From ill to worse , is fatal , never fails . Increase of power begets increase of wealth ; Wealth luxury , and luxury excess : Excess , the scrofulous and itchy plague That seizes first the opulent , descends ...
... things , from good to ill , From ill to worse , is fatal , never fails . Increase of power begets increase of wealth ; Wealth luxury , and luxury excess : Excess , the scrofulous and itchy plague That seizes first the opulent , descends ...
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