THE

PHILOSOPHY

OF THE

ACTIVE AND MORAL POWERS OF MAN.

BY

DUGALD STEWART, F. R. SS. LOND. AND ED.

REVISED, WITH OMISSIONS AND ADDITIONS,

BY JAMES WALKER, D. D.,

PROFESSOR OF INTELLECTUAL AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY IN HARVARD COLLEGE.

int : $2.5

Eibgth Edition.

BOSTON:

PHILLIPS, SAMPSON, AND COMPANY.

Stewart

Eatered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1849, y

JOHN BARTLETT.

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

v men ever lived, who poured into the breasts of more fervid, and yet reasonable, love of liberty, of ad of virtue. How many are still alive, in different s, and in every rank to which education reaches, they accurately examined their own minds and lives, scribe much of whatever goodness and happiness they to the early impressions of his gentle and persuasive ce!"

Philosophy of the Active and Moral Powers of Man e last of his publications; it came from the press in ing of 1828, a few weeks before the author's death. friendly and severe critic in the Penny Cyclopædia adn respect to this treatise, that it is "by far the least ionable of his works. It is more systematic, and conmore new truths, than any of his metaphysical writand his long acquaintance with the world and with letnabled him to suggest many obvious but overlooked ses." Only two editions of it have appeared in this

samowotole in 1900 the other in a collection