principles existing in the mind that we are enabled to feel the power of that varied and incontrovertible evidence, by which revelation comes to the candid inquirer with all the authority of truth. EDINBURGH, _November 1838._ * * * * * CONTENTS. PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS. SECTION I. NATURE AND IMPORTANCE OF THE SCIENCE OF THE MORAL FEELINGS. Division of the Mental Powers into Intellectual and Moral 1 Harmony which ought to exist between these classes 3 Causes by which this harmony is interrupted,--and means of counteracting them 3 Interest of the science of the Moral Feelings 5 Peculiar sources of Knowledge bearing upon it, from the light of Conscience, and of Divine Revelation 7 SECTION II. FIRST TRUTHS IN THE SCIENCE OF THE MORAL FEELINGS. Analogy between First Truths, or Intuitive Principles of Belief, in Intellectual, and in Moral Science 11 Classification of First Truths in Moral Science, as impressions arising out of each other, by an obvious chain of relations 16 1. Perception of the nature and quality of actions, as just or unjust,--right or wrong;--and a conviction of duties which a man owes to other men. 2. Conviction of the existence and attributes of a Great First Cause, and Moral Governor. 3. Conviction of Moral Responsibility. 4. Impression of Future Existence. Importance of these convictions, as intuitive articles of belief 18 * * * * * THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE MORAL FEELINGS. Analysis of Man as a Moral Being 27 I. THE DESIRES--THE AFFECTIONS--and SELF-LOVE. II. THE WILL. III. THE MORAL PRINCIPLE, or CONSCIENCE. IV. THE MORAL RELATION OF MAN TOWARDS THE DEITY. * * * * * PART I. THE DESIRES--THE AFFECTIONS--AND SELF-LOVE. SECTION I. THE DESIRES 36 1. Desire of the Animal Propensities 37 2. Desire of Wealth--Avarice 38 3. Desire of Power--Ambition 39 4. Desire of Superiority--Emulation 40 5. Desire of Society 41 6. Desire of Esteem or Approbation 42 7. Desire of Knowledge 46 8. Desire of Moral Improvement 47 -- Desire of Action 49