In the first chapter of The Making of the Modern University, Julie Reuben remarked that Francis Wayland’s Elements of Moral Science, first published in 1835 and still in print well after the author’s death in 1865, was “America’s most popular moral philosophy text.”[1]  By that I think she means that Wayland’s text was the most frequently and widely assigned textbook for moral philosophy classes, usually a capstone course in the traditional four-year bachelor of arts degree program. These classes were often taught to college seniors by the school’s president, and they were meant to help students synthesize and to some Read more