MAN AND HIS MOTIVES. BY GEORGE MOORE, M.D. MEMBER OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, "From thee, great God! we spring; to thee we tend ; STOR LIBRAR) NEW-YORK THIRD EDITION. LONDON: PREFACE. ΤΟ THE FIRST EDITION. It is impossible to reflect on the nature and motives of man, without concluding that religion is the end and purpose of reason. It was formerly the author's ambition to write acceptably on subjects more strictly professional, but circumstances having pressed the higher objects of thought upon his attention, he feels constrained to express his convictions, not because others have not better exhibited those truths which influence his own mind, but because the manner in which he has felt and presented them may suitably meet the state of some other hearts, and induce in them those sympathies, without which life, instead of brightening towards its close, is apt to become dark indeed. The topics propounded demand and deserve F |