The Commandments

Excerpt from The Commandments

This little work was written before I had any expectation of the honour Which the University of Cambridge has done me, in appointing me to its Chair of Moral Philo sophy; before I had even a dream of seeking for that honour. It is simply a book of prae tical morality and divinity, and has not the least of a scientific character. But I am not sorry that it should go forth as a Witness that I desire, in Whatever task I am engaged, to keep the interests of practical morality and divinity in sight, as paramount to all others.