Excerpt from Wealth and Moral Law: The Carew Lectures, for 1894, Hartford Theological Seminary
The original purpose of these lectures is sufficiently indicated in the opening paragraphs of Lecture I. Since their delivery, it has been thought that they may with advantage be made accessible to a wider public.
The industrial life of our time creates many new moral problems, some of which are ever coming home to every man's business and bosom. Multitudes of good people, unable to solve these, find them a source of incessant mental distress. Most of us do not wish to engage in practices which are wrong, or to countenance such. On the other hand we are anxious not to condemn deeds or policies that are good and right. Men need more instruction in the concrete particulars of duty, more light upon the often hardly visible distinction between right and wrong in social and economic conduct. The ethical teaching of schools and colleges must, from the nature of the case, be mainly theoretical and general, and it therefore very imperfectly supplies this want even for liberally educated persons. Neither the secular nor the religious press canvasses the finer questions of Applied Ethics with much delicacy or depth. Even the pulpit has not in recent years duly discharged this part of its high office. Indeed, I fear that, since the Reformation, at any rate, the pulpit has at no time done this. Happily, one sees signs that preachers are determined to be more faithful here.
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