Excerpt from The Philosophy of Conduct: An Outline of Ethical Principles
The purpose of this book is twofold. First; to present in convenient form the elements of ethical science, by brief introduction to subjects usually included in the course in ethics offered in our colleges and normal schools.
In planning the book for such use, it is presumed that the student will be directed to the fuller discussion of these subjects by the great writers of ancient and modern times; and that such reading will be worked over, by discussion in class room, and by written exposition of special topics. The book is made as brief as possible, to leave opportunity for this supplementary discussion; which, in such a subject as ethics, is much more important than anything that can be taken by memory from a text-book. The works that are chiefly had in mind to supplement this introduction are Seth"s Principles of Ethics and Green"s Prolegomena.
Second; it is hoped that the views here presented, though not pretending to any great originality, may serve to emphasize some concepts of ethics that have not been sufficiently regarded. Chief among these are the following:
1. Ethics should be treated as a natural science, and the distinction between the methods of treating moral science and the natural sciences entirely abandoned. Its principles are grounded in the same eternal scheme of things, which we call nature; they are discovered by similar processes of induction, and are as absolute and permanent as the laws of psychology or biology.
2. The distinction, so generally made, between Christian ethics and philosophic ethics rests on a misconception of both. There is but one ethics, and its principles are eternal. Revelation does not alter facts nor principles; it only makes them known.
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