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ELEMENTS OF MORAL SCIENCE, 
BY FRANCIS WAYLAND, D. D. 
President of Brown University, and Professor of Moral Philosophy. 
Twenty-Sixth Thousand. 
ICU" This work has been extensively and favorably reviewed in the leading 
periodicals of the day , and has already been adopted as a class-book in most 
of the collegiate , theological , and academical institutions of the country. 
From the Biblical Repository. 
“ The work of Dr. Wayland has arisen gradually from the necessity 
of correcting the false principles and fallacious reasonings of Paley. It 
is a radical mistake, in the education of youth, to permit any book to be 
used by students as a text-book, which contains erroneous doctrines, I 
especially when these are fundamental, and tend to vitiate the whole 
system of morals. We have been greatly pleased with the method 
which President Wayland has adopted ; he goes back to the simplest 
and most fundamental principles; and, in the statement of his views, he 
unites perspicuity with conciseness and precision. In all the author’s 
leading fundamental principles we entirely concur.” 
From Rev. Wilbur Fisk , Pres, of the Wesleyan University. 
“ I have examined it with great satisfaction and interest. The work 
was greatly needed, and is well executed. Dr. Wayland deserves the 
grateful acknowledgments and liberal patronage of the public. I need 
say nothing further to express my high estimate of the work, than that 
we shall immediately adopt it as a text-book in our university.” 
From Hon. James Kent , late Chancellor of New York. 
“ The work has been read by me attentively and thoroughly, and I 
think very highly of it. The author himself is one of the most estimable 
of men, and I do not know of any ethical treatise, in which our duties to 
God and to our fellow-men are laid down with more precision, simplic¬ 
ity, clearness, energy, and truth.” 
From the Literary and Theologieal Review 
“ This is a new work on morals, for academic use, and we welcome 
It with much satisfaction. It is the result of several years’ reflection and 
experience in teaching, on the part of its justly distinguished author; 
and if it is not perfectly what we could wish, yet, in the most important 
respects, it supplies a want which has been extensively felt. It is, we 
think, substantially sound in its fundamental principles ; and being com¬ 
prehensive and elementary in its plan, and adapted to the purposes of 
instruction, it will be gladly adopted by those who have for a long time 
been dissatisfied with the existing works of Paley.” 
