[These measures are considered separately in their What men will not do, as being right, they must do, as being ordered to do it. The class of persons to whom this principle is appli- cable, left uneducated, or ill-educated, owing to its non-application; punished, when con- INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. THE relation of physical phenomena to human happiness is amply investigated in the present day. But the direct and practical effect, which the philosophy of mind is calculated to produce, has received far less systematic inquiry. That this should be the case, might easily be anticipated from the different degree of precision, which the steps made in each of these pursuits are capable of obtaining. And yet, with less public estimation of their value, the few principles thus actually obtained are calculated to exert a most beneficial influence on mankind. As instances of such discoveries, I might adduce B |