LOWELL LECTURES,

ON THE

APPLICATION

OF

METAPHYSICAL AND ETHICAL SCIENCE

TO THE

EVIDENCES OF RELIGION;

DELIVERED BEFORE THE LOWELL INSTITUTE IN BOSTON,

IN THE WINTERS OF 1848 - 49.

BY

FRANCIS BOWEN.

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BOSTON:

CHARLES C. LITTLE AND JAMES BROWN.

1849.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1849, by

JOHN AMORY Lowell, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

CAMBRIDGE:
MET CALF AND COMPANY,

PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY.

TO

ANDREWS NORTON,

IN TOKEN OF RESPECT

FOR UIS EMINENT SERVICES TO THE CAUSE OF LETTERS, MORALS, AND RELIGION,

AND OF GRATITUDE

FOR MANY WORDS OF COUNSEL AND ACTS OF KINDNESS,

THESE LECTURES ARE INSCRIBED.