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the subject of mind and moral in any other 

 mode than what is here recommended. But 

 to me nothing appears more unsettled than the 

 subject of moral, nothing Jess deserving of the 

 name of philosophy than the crude and con- 

 tradictory theories of mind and moral, whicli 

 divide the ' f)laudits of the modem world. If 

 the same mode of reasoning as in the study of 

 natund philosophy be the only road to truth 

 and usetAil truth in the science of mind and 

 moral, theses theories and the favour with which 

 they tire received, abundantly prove that this 

 road is not yet much walked in. 



1 shall conclude this essay with a few queries, 

 whtch may suffice to shew, that some favourite 

 theories and doctrines respecting mind and 

 moral will not abide the expi^rimental test. 



I might summon many writers to thii 

 examerh, stmie who have composed professed 

 theories, others who have only in a desultory 

 manner discussed the subject of moral, though 

 to such discussions their fame has been not a 

 little indebted. This, however, woulci carry 

 itie too far. ^ Indulgence to a few queries on 

 the two favourite theories of the useful and X\\t 

 selfish is all, if not more, than it becomes me 

 to expect. 



Do those, who make utility the foundation 

 and origin of morals, d^rtve their system from 



