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X.—MORAL PHILOSOPHY.

PROFESSOR M'GUFFEY.

There are three classes in this school:

The Junior class studies Rhetoric, Belles Letters and Philosophical
Criticism.

Text-Books—Blair's Lectures, Campbell's Philosophy of
Rhetoric, Whately's Rhetoric, Kame's Elements of Criticism,
Cousin's Philosophy of the Beautiful, Milton and Shakespeare.

The Intermediate class studies Political Economy, Statistics,
and the Philosophy of Social Relations, or "Ethics of Society."

Text-Books—On Political Economy, Say and J. S. Mill;
on the Progress of Society, Guizot, Grimké and De Tocqueville.

The Senior class studies Mental Philosophy, Logic, (inductive
and deductive,) together with Theoretical and Practical Ethics.

Text-Books—On Mental Philosophy, Locke, Reid and
Cousin; on Logic, Mill and Whately; on Ethics, Stewart,
Butler and Jouffroy.

The lectures are carried on concurrently during the session, two
a week to each class.

The examinations are on the Professor's lectures and the
text-books above enumerated.