LECTURES,

CORRECTED AND IMPROVED,

WHICH

HAVE BEEN DELIVERED FOR A SERIES OF YEARS,

IN THE

COLLEGE OF NEW-JERSEY;

ON THE SUBJECTS OF

MORAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

THE FORMER PART EMBRACING,

I. The general principles of human nature considered as a subject of moral science.

II. The principles of ethics, or the moral relations and dutice of sun.

III. The principles of natural theology.

IV. And lastly, those of economics, or family relations, as preparatory to the consideration of
the relations and duties of evil and political life.

THE LATTER PART EMBRACING,

I. The rules which ought to regulate the conduct of men towards one another in a state of
civil society, and the means of enforcing those rules.

II. The rules and principles which give the form to the society or government itself, and
which direct its operations.

III. And finally, the rules which should govern the conduct of independent governments or
states to one another-the whole comprehending those general principles on the subjects of
jurisprudence, politics, and public law, or the law of nature and nations, with which every
man of liberal information in a free country ought to be acquainted.

BY THE REV. SAMUEL STANHOPE SMITH, D. D. L. L. D.

:*:

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOLUME I.

NEW-YORK :

PUBLISHED BY WHITING AND WATSON,
FOR THE AUTHOR.

TRENTON:

PRINTED BY JAMES J. WILSON.

1812.

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