Excerpt from Minor Morals: For Young People

Haying been engaged in the publication of a work which is intended to establish the principles of morality on what appears to me their only true and sure foundation, namely, their influence upon the happiness of mankind, it had often occurred to me that it would be rendering some service to those whose opinions will be the opinions of the coming generation, if the theory of genuine morals could be elucidated for the service of the young, by the blending of amusement and instruction.

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