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CHAPTER VI. The Duty of cultivating a Delicate Sense ofHonor.

True honor analyzed by the aid of Cicero, and shown to consist of the finestelements of feeling, of sentiment, and of action,.302

False honor is the misunderstanding, the abuse, and the perversion of truehonor,.303

CHAPTER VII. The Duty of guarding Ourselves against Pre-judices, Antipathies, &c.

The effect of prejudice, prepossession, bias, &c., is, to disturb the reason,

to cloud and darken the understanding, and to pervert the conscience, 304In their more intense degrees, they are unquestionably criminal, and theyall imply something wrong in our habits, education, ways of thinking, or

usual state of feeling,.. . .... 305

History of prejudice illustrated by reference to personal experience, . . .308

PART Y.

A REVIEW OF THE CHIEF PROFESSIONS AND EMPLOYMENTSOF LIFE, SO FAR AS REGARDS THE MORAL DUTIES WHICHTHEY INVOLVE ; THEIR MORAL PRINCIPLES, PRACTICES,INFLUENCES, AND TENDENCIES.

To the various professions and employments of life, a well-ascertained rankin general estimation is attached, which has been much the same at all

times, and in all countries. .309

Illustration of this position drawn from the writings of Cicero, .... 309

CHAPTER I. A Review of the Profession of the Law, includ-ing a Moral Estimate of the Legal Profession, so far as itNATURALLY COMES UNDER THE VlEW OF THE MORAL PHILOSOPHER.All the best authorities insist, that good morals are essentially requisite to

the attainment of the highest order of excellence and success in the study

and practice of the law,.311

This position sustained by authority and argument,.311

Professional honor and integrity will forbid the lawyer to engage in a busi-ness of notorious wrong; but here a nice distinction arises,.313

Two very manifest principles laid down by Sir James Mackintosh, . . . 313

The acquirements most essential to the success of the lawyer,.315

The main tendency of the legal profession is, to elevate the moral character,but there are incidental tendencies, which, unless guarded against, willdegrade the personal and professional character of the lawyer, .... 315A striking difference between American and English lawyers, noticed, . . 318Anticipations of Mr. Justice Story in respect to American lawyers, . . .319

Duties of the lawyer towards his client,.320

The judicial character is naturally the perfection of the character formedunder the influence of the study and practice of the law,.321