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I published for the use of my students, in November 1793, a small Manual, under the title of Outlines of Moral Philosophy, which I afterwards used as a text-book as long as I continued to give lectures in the University. The second part of this Manual contains the same principles, expressed nearly in the same words, with the present publication, in which these principles are much more fully expanded, illustrated, and defended. My attention was thus imperatively called to this part of my course in a greater degree than to any other, by the aspect of the times when I entered upon the duties of my office as Professor of Moral Philosophy.--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved).

Ethics --- Ethics, Evolutionary. --- Philosophy.

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"The following lectures contain criticisms on the views and doctrines of a series of ethical writers; they attempt to point out how far each was right, and in what way he contributed to the progress of moral speculation in this country. It is plain that such judgments must be affected by the views and doctrines of the critic himself. Nor is this a disadvantage in such criticism, if the critic's point of view be definite and evident. In my "Elements of Morality" I have given that view of the grounds and relations of moral truths to which the best parts of all previous moral speculations appear to me to converge; but it may still be of use to explain here, more briefly and pointedly, the System of Morality there presented"--Introduction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved).

Ethics --- History.

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Christian ethics --- Catholic authors

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Political ethics --- Civics

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Early impressions are indellible, are all powerful. And the earlier, the more so. Yet how few carry this principle back to Parentage, its first, and most eventful application-to the influences, on offspring, of the various conditions of parents at the time the former receive being and constitution from the latter. To develop those laws which govern this department of nature, and analyze its facts-to show what parental conditions, physical and mental, will stamp the most favorable impress on the primitive organization, health, talents, virtue, &c, of yet uncreated immortals, and what must necessarily entail physical diseases, mental maladies, and vicious predispositions, constitute our subject matter. It consequently involves, not their animal life and death merely, but also their mental life and spiritual being; and is therefore among the most momentous subjects which can possibly engross human attention; as well as one which parents must understand in order to confer on offspring the highest physical, intellectual, and moral endowments and capabilities in the power of parentage to bestow. These exalted considerations dictated this work; and if it enables a few parents only to endow their children, by nature, with a strong and healthy physical, a high mental, and a powerful intellectual constitution, Infinitude alone can measure the good that will result therefrom, not merely to these children themselves, but also to their descendants for many generations to come. This book also has a supplement, entitled "Evils and Remedy of excessive and perverted Amativeness, including advice and warning to the married and the young," matter intimately related to this volume, and originally designed to accompany it.

Marriage. --- Sexual ethics.