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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
Shakspeare.
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, Grimke 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.
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