TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



XI 



MORAL PHILOSOPHY. 



Moral probation page 38 



Of evils the least 38 



Negative happiness 38 



Counterfeit happiness 39 



Tranquillity 39 



The miseries of life 39 



Artificial misery 40 



Temporal blessings 40 



The moral sense 41 



Sympathy 41 



Connexion between good 



sense and benevolence . . 41 



Individuality 41 



Selfishness 41 



Care .42 



Fashion and ennui 42 



Maxims 42 



Education 43 



Pain and pleasure 44 



Mora] action 44 



Evil page 44 



Responsibility 44 



Experience 45 



A lie 45 



Truth 45 



The Bible 45 



False religions 45 



Voltaire 45 



The imagination 46 



Passion 46 



Silence 46 



Love and hunger 46 



Imprisonment 47 



Fasting 47 



Wine 47 



Opportunity 47 



Cannibals 47 



Men of business 47 



Good spirits . .. 48 



Object and employment ... 48 



ELECTRICITY. 



Nature of electricity 49 



General properties of elec- 

 tric matter ,. 49 



Ancient electricity 50 



Positive & negative electricity 50 

 Vitreous and resinous elec- 

 tricity 50 



Electric tastes 50 



Electric attraction & repulsion 5 1 



Supply and time 51 



Characteristic of the gase- 

 ous elements 51 



Chemical affinity and elec- 

 tricity 51 



Electricity of the atmos- 

 phere 52 



Metals 52 



M. Ampere's theory 52 



GALVANISM. 



Perpetual motion 53 



Copper bottoms 53 



A galvanic tongue 53 



Powerful batteries 54 



Copper and sea water 54 



