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BOYD'S ECLECTIC MORAL PHILOSOPHY.

THIS work, prepared for schools by the author of the "Rhetoric," professes to teach the Science of Human Duty in a lucid and thorough manner; and also to unfold the moral structure, capacities, and active principles of man. To youth nothing is of greater importance than a knowledge of their moral and active powers, and an acquaintance with the proper method of employing them in the performance of the various duties of life. Should not some text-book on this subject be constantly employed in every academy and district school? Must not the education of our youth be extremely imperfect without it? Whether the "Eclectic Moral Philosophy," when the character of its contents, its moderate price, and handsome style of publication are considered, is entitled to a preference over other works on the same subject, is submitted to the judgment of instructors, upon an examination and trial of the work. The science of Moral Philosophy, in this day of educational improvement, should not be undervalued and neglected as it has ever been. It should take rank, as a matter of course, with Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and Mathematics.

The work has an advantage which no other of the kind can possess, of nggesting to the pupil the works and authors where the various topics are more extensively treated. It is, in fact, an excellent guide-book for an exploration of the wide and tangled field of moral science.-Bib. Repository. We commend this comprehensive volume, as one of great utility, to all teachers and students especially, also the private reader, as an admirable epitomized system of moral philosophy.-American Review.

This is an excellent book. Mr. Boyd has, in our judgment, succeeded in presenting the science of human actions" with such steady reference to the only true sources of that science as will commend the book warmly to all the best friends of popular education. The work is strictly an; ile: small of the existence of any elementary

regard its publication at this time as a valuable contribution to the cause of popular education, no less than to the interests of a sound literary taste S. S. RANDALL, Dept. Supt. Com. Schools

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