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PRACTICAL ETHICS
BY WILLIAM DEWITT HYDE, D. D.
President of Bowdoin College
NEW YORK
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1892,
BY
HENRY HOLT & CO.
THE MERSHON COMPANY PRESS,
RAHWAY, N. J.
PREFACE.
The steady stream of works on ethics during the last ten years, rising
almost to a torrent within the past few months, renders it necessary for
even the tiniest rill to justify its slender contribution to the already
swollen flood. On the one hand treatises abound which are exhaustive in their
presentation of ethical theory. On the other hand books are plenty which
give good moral advice with great elaborateness of detail. Each type of
work has its place and function. The one is excellent mental gymnastic
for the mature; the other admirable emotional pabulum for the childish
mind. Neither, however, is adapted both to satisfy the intellect and
quicken the conscience at that critical period when the youth has put
away childish things and is reaching out after manly and womanly ideals. The book which shall meet this want must have theory; yet the theory
must not be made obtrusive, nor stated too abstractly. The theory must
be deeply imbedded in the structure of the work; and must commend
itself, not by metaphysical deduction from first principles, but by its
ability to comprehend in a rational and intelligible order the concrete
facts with which conduct has to do. Such a book must be direct and practical. It must contain clear cut
presentation of duties to be done, virtues to be cultivated, temptations
to be overcome, and vices to be shunned: yet this must be done, not by
preaching and exhortation, but by showing the place these things occupy
in a coherent system of reasoned knowledge. Such a blending of theory and practice, of faith and works, is the aim
and purpose of this book. The only explicit suggestions of theory are in the introduction (which
should not be taken as the first lesson) and in the last two chapters.
Religion is presented as the consummation, rather than the foundation of
ethics; and the brief sketch of religion in the concluding chapter is
confined to those broad outlines which are accepted, with more or less
explicitness, by Jew and Christian, Catholic and Protestant, Orthodox
and Liberal.
WILLIAM DEWITT HYDE. BOWDOIN COLLEGE,
BRUNSWICK, ME. May 10, 1892.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER PAGE INTRODUCTION, 1 I. FOOD AND DRINK, 9 II. DRESS, 19 III. EXERCISE, 25 IV. WORK, 32 V. PROPERTY, 40 VI. EXCHANGE, 46 VII. KNOWLEDGE, 53 VIII. TIME, 60 IX. SPACE, 65 X. FORTUNE, 70 XI. NATURE, 81 XII. ART, 89 XIII. ANIMALS, 98 XIV. FELLOW MEN, 104 XV. THE POOR, 117 XVI. WRONGDOERS, 127 XVII. FRIENDS, 137 XVIII. FAMILY, 144 XIX. STATE, 157 XX. SOCIETY, 167 XXI. SELF, 179 XXII. GOD, 194
OUTLINE OF PRACTICAL ETHICS SEE LAST PARAGRAPH OF INTRODUCTION.
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Object. Duty. Virtue. Reward.
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