OF SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY; OR, A NEW SYSTEM OF PRACTICAL ETHICS. BY SIR RICHARD PHILLIPS. LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, AND TO BE HAD OF ALL BOOKSELLERS. 1826. (Price 10s. 6d. in boards.) `- 26520 e 2. TO SIMON BOLIVAR, THE LIBERATOR. SIR, To what living personage can I so properly dedicate a work on the social duties of men, as to the founder of many independent states? I regard myself as fortunate in being even the contemporary of a character whose public virtues and disinterested patriotism transcend not merely every example presented by history, but surpass all that philosophy could have expected to see realized; and I present, therefore, to such a man, the homage of my affections, and the intellectual products of my life. In various forms this book embraces |