September, 1845. 



MESSRS. HARPER AND BROTHERS 



PUBLISH THIS DAY, 



ELEMENTS OF MORALITY AND POLITY, 



BY PROF. WHEWELL 



This valuable new production, from the pen of one of the 

 most eminent scholars of the age, exhibits in a lucid, exact, 

 and elegant style, the great principles of moral, political, 

 and ecclesiastical science in a far more complete and me- 

 thodical manner than has ever yet been presented to the 

 public. In offering this work to the American reader, the 

 Publishers beg leave to introduce it as the commencement 

 of a new and attractive series oi sterling books, to be is- 

 sued by them, under the general designation of 



Harper's New Miscellany. 



The volumes of which will be legibly printed, in duodecimo, 

 on fine paper, and bound in extra muslin gilt. 



Price Fifty Cents a Volume, 



and issued at short intervals. 

 To render accessible to the million the fullest advanta- 

 ges of popular instruction in the various divisions of human 

 knowledge is the design of the above series. It is apparent 

 in the present day that books of intrinsic value are de- 

 manded by the people. Formerly the popular taste prefer- 

 red mainly works of mere amusement; the great body of 

 readers now seek them as vehicles of general knowledge 

 — books of a more permanently valuable cast — devoted to 

 some of the departments of science or general literature. 

 A new race has sprung up, glowing with the first ener- 

 gies of youth, requiring more expanded ideas of the world 

 in which they live, and a more reliable and well-digested 

 knowledge of the men, and the events of other times and 

 countries. A class of books expressly adapted to this de- 

 mand it is the aim of the Publishers to supply, and at 



