1898-1899 Academic Catalog

28 Cedarville College. MENTAL SCIENCE Porter’s Elements o f Intellectual Science is the text hook. It is completed during the first two terms o f the Junior Collegiate year. The instruction is by the recitation and lecture system. The topics studied and discussed are Psychology and its relations to other Sciences, the Soul and its relation to Matter, the Human Intellect under the headings o f Presentation and Presentative Knowledge, Thought and Thought Knowledge, and Intuitions. The study of Psychology "promotes self-knowledge, and moral culture, disciplines to moral reflection, trains to the knowledge o f human nature, is indispensable to educators, creates the study o f literature” and impels to general scientific research. It is the parent o f all sciences. Upon it are based political, social, legal, aesthetic, theological, metaphysical and physiological studies. Even those branches that deal with the phenomena o f the material world exclusively must make their final appeal to psychology before they can be stamped with the seal of truth. ETHICS AND CHR IST IAN SCIENCES. The “whole Senior year is spent in the study o f Moral Science and Apologetics from theoretical and practical standpoint). Essays are required and class discussion is encouraged. Both ancient and modern systems o f philosophy are investigated. The course is pur­ sued by tin: recitation and lecture method. The student is constantly urged to search present history anil appeal to the data o f moral con­ sciousness. Gregory’s Christian Ethics is the text in Moral Science and Fisher’s Apologetics is the text in Evidences o f Christianity and Natural Theology. The subjects o f study in Apologetics are the Genuineness and Authenticity of the Scriptures, The Superiority of Christianity, The Inspiration o f the Scriptures, The Nature o f God and His Existence. Moral Science presents the following themes: The Nature o f the Moral Agent, The Nature o f Virtue, Freedom o f W ill, Conscience, Duties to God and to Man No education is com­ plete without a knowledge o f the topics just named.