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Excerpt from Conscience, Vol. 1: An Essay Towards a New Analysis, Deduction, and Development of Conscience; New Analysis of Conscience
IT might have been better to let the following essay intro duce and explain itself, were it not that some personal acknowledgments are due. I therefore take the opportunity of saying a word or two by way of general preface.
About twelve years ago - after much anxious thought and investigation - I was convinced that the key to some of the most troublesome problems of the present day, both in theology and ethics, was to be found in conscience, - if anywhere. Accordingly I resolved to enter upon a prolonged consideration of its nature, origin, and develop ment. I was then completing three sessions of university study in France and Germany, having previously graduated in the faculty of arts in Edinburgh. About that time, five Elective Fellowships for original research were instituted in connection with Edinburgh University, and I was fortunate enough to secure one of them. Opportunities of special study were thus provided which might not otherwise have been available, and, after this long interval, I gladly acknowledge the incalculable benefits I derived from work upon this foundation. My most sincere thanks are there fore tendered to the anonymous Founder of these Fellow ships, as well as to the gentlemen through whose goodwill the appointment fell to me in the department of the mental and moral sciences.
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