A plan for the conduct of female education, in boarding schools, private families, and public seminaries. By Erasmus Darwin, M.D. F.R.S. author of Zoonomia, and of The botanic garden. ; To which are added, Rudiments of taste, in a series of letters from a mother to her daughters. ; Embellished with an elegant frontispiece.

Title: A plan for the conduct of female education, in boarding schools, private families, and public seminaries. By Erasmus Darwin, M.D. F.R.S. author of Zoonomia, and of The botanic garden. ; To which are added, Rudiments of taste, in a series of letters from a mother to her daughters. ; Embellished with an elegant frontispiece.

Author: Darwin, Erasmus, 1731-1802.

Collection: Evans Early American Imprint Collection

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SECTION XVI. MORALS.THE criterion of moral duties has been variously delivered by different wri∣ters: Expediency, by which is meant whatever increases the sum of public hap∣piness, is by some called the criterion of virtue; and whatever diminishes that sum is termed vice. By others the happiness or misery of the individual, if rightly un∣derstood, is said to be the bond of moral obligation. And lastly, by others the will of God is said to constitute the sole crite∣rion of virtue and vice.But besides systematic books of morali∣ty, which are generally too abstruse for young minds, morals may be divided into five departments for the greater convenien∣cy of the manner of instruction.0