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Excerpt from The Fundamental Principles of Christian Ethics: Five Lectures My first intention, upon concluding to publish these lectures, was to supplement the necessarily condensed matter of the text with a running commentary in the shape of footnotes. I would thus have been enabled to en large upon points which the circumstances attending the delivery of the lectures did not permit me to develop at length. For there is much in the exposition and elucidation of the doctrine, as set forth in the lectures, which will appear abstruse, when it is really only condensed. The arguments, too, up on which the doctrine rests may at times, perhaps, appear unnecessarily profound or subtle, because I was not at liberty to spend more space and time upon their elaboration. The same observation is true of the systems of Ethics reviewed in these lectures. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.