although the marks of quotation are generally omitted. The compiler has labored to make the best text-book in his power, with the best helps before him, availing himself freely, when he judged best, of their language as well as their thoughts. This remark applies only to foreign authors. When the language of American authors is used, the marks of quotation are uniformly employed. To inspire confidence in the character of this work, and in its adaptation to general usefulness, particularly in academies, if not also in colleges, the compiler begs leave to append a list of the authors to whom, principally, he has been indebted for what appears upon the following pages. Dugald Stewart's Philosophy of the Active and Moral Powers of Man. Works, vol. v. Dr. Abercrombie on the Moral Powers. Dr. Beattie's Moral Science. Dr. Whewell's Elements of Morality, 2 vols. Dr. Chalmers' Natural Theology and Moral Philosophy Dr. John Dick's Lectures. Dr. Thomas Dick's Philosophy of Religion. Bishop Wilson's Evidences of Christianity, vol. ii. Paley's Moral Philosophy. Archbishop Secker on the Commandments. Dr. Dewar's Moral Philosophy, 2 vols. Dymond's Essays on Morality. John Angell James's Help to Domestic Happiness. John Angell James's Christian Charity. Barnes on Slavery. Channing on Slavery. Wardlaw's Christian Ethics. Winslow on Civil and Social Duties. Bishop Butler's Sermons on Human Nature. Bishop Butler's Analogy of Natural and Revealed Religion. |