Excerpt from Sermons: Sermons I., II., III., Upon Human Nature, or Man Considered as a Moral Agent
The aim of this little is twofold. In the first place, an effort is made so to explain and illustrate Butler's Three Sermons on Human Nature that they shall be made intelligible and attractive to readers who may feel themselves repelled by a style which is at times obscure and unpleasant. In the second place, the hope is entertained of engaging and directing in a course of ethical study some who may not yet have seriously considered the interest and importance of such a pursuit. No attempt is made to be exhaustive or even systematic. The aim of the book will be amply realized, if readers have their interest in the subject of ethics awakened, and arise to make for themselves a more competent and satisfactory study.
It may be objected that ethical study is far too abstruse and difficult for those whom the editors chiefly have in view in issuing their series of Bible Class Handbooks. The difficulty may be granted; and to those who believe that no good thing can be got without effort, the difficulty of the subject will be no reason against its being taught to all who are gifted with ordinary intelligence, even though they may not have received a scientific training. The charge of want of interest or of remoteness from practical life must be earnestly repudiated.
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