LONDON : GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, PRINTER,

ST. JOHN's SQUARE.

BY GEORGE HARRIS, LL.D. F.S.A.

OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW; VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE
ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND; VICE-
PRESIDENT OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN :
LATE PRESIDENT OF THE MANCHESTER ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY;
FOREIGN MEMBER OF THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF
NEW YORK; FELLOW OF THE ROYAL HISTORICAL
SOCIETY ; AUTHOR OF “CIVILIZATION CON-
SIDERED AS A SCIENCE,” “THE
THEORY OF THE ARTS,”

ETC.

Γνωθι σεαυτον.

VOL II.

London :
GEORGE BELL & SONS, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.
CAMBRIDGE: DEIGHTON, BELL, & co.

1876.
[The Right of Translation is reserved.]

CONTENTS.

BOOK II.

THE MORAL NATURE AND CONSTITUTION OF MAN.

CHAP.

PAGE

3

I.-MORAL DISPOSITION AND CHARACTER.

1. Constitution and essence of moral endowment . . .

2. The will, its nature and prerogative. .

3. Supremacy of the reason, and freedom of the will .

4. Virtue and vice, their principle and essence . .

5. Natural inclinations to good and evil.

. . . . .

6. Benevolence and malevolence, not innate principles. .

7. Moral qualities and propensities .

8. Disposition and character, on what dependent . .

9. Moral direction and discipline .

..

10. Qualities and propensities, analogous to moral endowment

existent in, and exhibited by certain animals . .

II.-THE MORAL DESIRES.

1. Origin, constitution, and quality of these desires

2. Particular objects of desire, peculiar to each part of our

nature

3. The same originating impulses, and a corresponding mode

of operation, characterize both the moral desires.

4. Their insatiability and irregularity of action . . .

5. The moral desire termed avarice . .

6. The moral desire termed ambition :

7. Influence and use of the moral desires .

8. Power over, and discipline of these desires.

9. How far common to animals as well as man

111.-THE CONSCIENCE.

1. Supremacy of conscience in the moral constitution of man 116

2. Reason the leading element in the constitution of con-

science . .

. . . . . 120

3. Medial excitement attendant on its exercise . . 125