Francis Wayland
The Elements of Moral Science (1835)
Table of Contents

Title Page, Prefaces

BOOK 1:   Theoretical Ethics

CHAP. 1st:   Of the Origin of Our Notion of the Moral Quality of Actions

SECT. 1:   Of Moral Law
SECT. 2:   What Is a Moral Action?
SECT. 3:   In What Part of an Action Do We Discover its Moral Quality?
SECT. 4:   Whence Do We Derive Our Notion of the Moral Quality of Actions?
CHAP. 2nd:   Conscience, or The Moral Sense

SECT. 1:   Is There a Conscience?
SECT. 2:   Of the Manner in Which the Decision of Conscience Is Expressed
SECT. 3:   The Authority of Conscience
SECT. 4:   Law by Which Conscience Is Governed
SECT. 5:   Rules for Moral Conduct

CHAP. 3rd:   The Nature of Virtue

SECT. 1:   Of Virtue in General
SECT. 2:   Of Virtue in Imperfect Beings

CHAP. 4th:   Human Happiness
CHAP. 5th:   Of Self-Love
CHAP. 6th:   Imperfection of Conscience; Necessity of Some Additional Moral Light
CHAP. 7th:   Of Natural Religion

SECT. 1:   Of the Manner in Which We Learn Our Duty by the Light of Nature
SECT. 2:   How Far We May Learn Our Duty by the Light of Nature
SECT. 3:   Prefects of the System of Natural Religion

CHAP. 8th:   Relations Between Natural and Revealed Religion
CHAP. 9th:   The Holy Scriptures

SECT. 1:   A View of the Holy Scriptures
SECT. 2:   In What Manner Are We to Ascertain Our Duty by the Holy Scriptures?

CHAP. 1st:   General Obligation to Supreme Love to God
CHAP. 2nd:   Of a Devotional Spirit
CHAP. 3rd:   Of Prayer
CHAP. 4th:   Observance of the Sabbath

DIVISION 1st:   Reciprocity - General Principles Illustrated, And The Duties of Reciprocity Classified

CLASS 1st:   Justice and Veracity
OF JUSTICE

CHAP. 1st:   Personal Liberty

SECT. 1:   Nature of Personal Liberty
SECT. 2:   Modes in Which Personal Liberty May Be Violated

CHAP. 2nd:   Justice as it Respects Property

SECT. 1:   The Right of Property
SECT. 2:   Modes in Which the Right of Property May Be Violated by the Individual
SECT. 3:   Right of Property as Violated by Society

CHAP. 3rd:   Justice as it Respects Character
CHAP. 4th:   Justice as it Respects Reputation

OF VERACITY

CHAP. 1st:   Veracity of the Past and Present
CHAP. 2nd:   Veracity in Respect to the Future
CHAP. 3rd:   Of Oaths

CLASS 2nd:   Duties Which Arise From the Constitution of the Sexes

CHAP. 1st. General Duty of Chastity
CHAP. 2nd:   The Law of Marriage
CHAP. 3rd:   The Law of Parents
CHAP. 4th:   The Law of Children

CLASS 3rd:   Duties to Man, as a Member of Civil Society

CHAP. 1st:   Of Civil Society

SECT. 1:   Of a Simple Society
SECT. 2:   Of Civil Society

CHAP. 2nd:   Of The Mode in Which The Objects of Society Are Accomplished
CHAP. 3rd:   Duties of the Officers of a Government
CHAP. 4th:   Duties of Citizens

DIVISION 2nd:   The Law of Benevolence

CHAP. 1st:   General Obligation, and Division of the Subject
CHAP. 2nd:   Benevolence to the Unhappy

SECT. 1:   Unhappiness from Physical Condition
SECT. 2:   Unhappiness from Intellectual Condition

CHAP. 3rd:   Benevolence to the Wicked
CHAP. 4th:   Benevolence to the Injurious