No interests require more philosophy than those connected with politics.

To resume--our philosophy, natural, moral and political, reserving most of the propositions, demonstrations, and corollaries, for greater leisure, and a more advanced state of information in the class.

Prescribing to myself these salutary limits, therefore, I shall begin only with nature.
"Nature is a term that we use to express the pervading and governing principle of created things.

It is known both as a generic and a specific term, signifying in the former character the elements and combinations of omnipotence, as applied to matter in general, and in the latter its particular subdivisions, in connection with matter in its infinite varieties.

It is moreover subdivided into its physical and moral attributes, which admit also of the two grand distinctions just named.