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Excerpt from An Estimate of the Human Mind: A Philosophical Inquiry, Into the Legitimate Application and Extent of Its Leading Faculties, as Connected With the Principles and Obligations of the Christian Religion
There was one department of the mind, however, which was still left untouched, except so far as it was involved in the discussions relating to the exer cises of the Will. The Author indeed hesitated for for some time whether this faculty might not, with greater propriety, be considered as belonging to the practical department of the human character, and as forming a part of moral science, which has refer ence to the duties of man as an individual and as a member of society. Several years ago he was invited by some members of the Council of the London University to offer himself as a candidate for the Professorship of Moral and Political Philo sophy in that Institution. Although by various con siderations he was induced ultimately to decline that invitation, he was led by it to direct his attention in a more special manner to the question of Christian Ethics, as standing in close connection with those investigations in which he had already been engaged. The Dissertation on the Conscience as connected with the Moral Law, now incorporated into this work, was the first result of these inquiries. So far as the Faculties of the Mind itself are concerned therefore, the object which the Author had proposed to himself.
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