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the Tiuflees had inftituted, amongft others, a ProfefTorfhip 

 for Natural Hiftory, Chemiftry, and Agriculture, with a 

 falary of L. 2co a year : and that Leftures had been given 

 upon the different parts of the courfe. The clafs was as 



a. Moral Philofophy is taught by ProfeiTor John Daniel Gros, S. T. D. The 

 fyftem of that fcicnce in Cohimbia College, comprehends an IntrodnBory Treatlfe on the 

 different ftates and conditions of man — the nature of man — the powers and faculties of 

 the human mind, which diftinguifh him from the reft of animated nature on earth • 

 as a moral agent accountable to G od and his fellow creatures fer his aftions and the ufc 

 of tho e powers. — ^Thcn follows a three-fold oivifion of the courfe : 1. The firft explaining 

 the Principles and Laws refulting from the nature of man, and his natural relations to 

 God and his fellow creaturss, by which human conduiS: ought to be regulated in a manner 

 becoming the dignity of human nature, and conformable to the will of God, This 

 conftitutes the Laiu of Nature ftri<Si;ly fo called, and treats of adions good, bad, and 

 indifferent — of moral obligatioi; — of the fcope of natural laws, their extent and tendency 

 to our happinefs — of the different degrees of good, evil, merit and demerit in our 

 aftions— of moral imputation ; the idea of reditude in human conduiS, rewards and 

 punifhments, and the nature of moral confcience. — 2. In the fecond part of the fyflem, 

 thofc general principles are applied to the different ftates, relations and conditions of man, 

 comprehending (a) Ethics, or our duties to God, ourfelves, and others ; (b) Natural 

 Turifprudence ; laying down the principles of perfed and imperfecft rights — the pcrfedb 

 obligation we owe to others, not to do an injury — to give every one his due, &c.. — the 

 natural rights of war, their nature and extent — bU thefe rights in a well-regulated ftate 

 arc lodged with and exerclfed by government. Rights in Things: rights of property, 

 commonry, ufc, ufufrudt, and the modes of acquiring thofe rights, by occupancy, padl, 

 or law: natural rights of inheritance. Rights of Perfons : flavery unnatural— the univerfal 

 law of fociety— fubordination of focicties— civil fociety— parental and domeflic focieties. 

 Ciiil Government : fundamental law of civil government — citizens, rulers, and the ruled— 

 rights of fovcrcignty explained and exemplified— duties and obligations of citizens • 



