The Law Of Love And Love As A Law - Or, Moral Science, Theoretical And Practical - By Mark Hopkins - 1869 - If we accept the principles of classifietion adopted in the following work, the position of Moral Science as compared mith other sciences is either superior or central. It is superior to those sciences, as intellectual philosophy, which are conditional for it and central for those, as the science of govenlrnent, which are but an application of its principles. It is from this position of the science, together mith its unsettled condition, that I hae been Icd of htc to devote to its advancement the little timc I could spare from my more immediate and pressing duties. That some advancement has been made I am encouraged to hope from the favorable reception of the Lectures on Moral Science published by nle five years since. In those Lecture morality was made rational, both as based on ends and as ilivolving intuitions the different kinds of ends and of gwd, pare distinguished the relation.......................