Excerpt from On the Progress of Ethical Philosophy: Chiefly During the Xviith Xviiith Centuries
The following Dissertation forms one of a series of similar Pieces, intended to exhibit a view of the History of the Sciences, and which compose the first or introductory volume of the eighth edition of the Encyclop?dia Britannica. In presenting it to the world detached from that work, the proprietors have complied with a wish very frequently expressed for its separate publication; and they think themselves fortunate in being enabled to accompany it with a Preface which presents a succinct and comprehensive view of its leading objects and doctrines. As allusion is there made to the "irregular and interrupted manner" in which it was written, and to the want of any notice of the recent Ethical speculations of the Continental Philosophers, it may be proper, in justice to the very eminent author, to lay before the reader the following history of its composition, as given in the interesting Memoirs of his Life, lately published by his Son.
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