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IX.—MORAL PHILOSOPHY.
PROFESSOR M'GUFFEY.
There are three classes in this school:
The Junior Class studies Rhetoric, Belles-Lettres, and Philosophical
Criticism.
Text-Books—Blair's Lectures, Campbell's Philosophy of Rhetoric,
Whately's Rhetoric, Kame's Elements of Criticism, Cousin's
Philosopy 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 textbooks
above enumerated.
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