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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