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THROUGH SWEDEN. 145
enter at all deeply, at this univerfity, into the queftion concerning
the foundation of moral obligation. They certainly do not keep
pace with the viciffitudes and progrefs of the various opinions on
that fubje@t. All that is good for any thing in moral philofophy
is contained, as they fuppofe, in Cicero de Officiis and Puffendorf.
Tam inclined to fufpeé that moral philofophy at Lund is regarded
with an evil eye, as being in fome refpects inimical to the tenets
of Luther. Ihave not been able to difcover that this fubject is
yery much attended to in many Catholic or Lutheran, or in other
words in many Epifcopal univerfities.
- The profeffors in ph7lofophy are,
Mr. Lidbeck, already noticed among the members of the aca–
demy of fciences.
Sommelius, heretofore librarian: he has publifhed a Greek
grammar in Swedifh, and a great number of academical differta-
tions. |
Matthias Norberg, profeflor of Greek and oriental languages, a
member of the philofophical fociety of Gothenburg, and a corre-
fpondent member of the mufeum at Paris. He travelled with the-
celebrated Biérnftahl, in Greece, Turky, Italy, &c. He has in-
troduced a new mode of pronouncing Hebrew, and a new method
of acquiring that language with facility. His mode of pronounc-
ing Greek, though generally deemed new, was formerly adopted
by Reuchlin, who maintained a difpute on that fubject with Eraf-
mus, whofe pronunciation is ftill retained at Upfala. It would, in
my opinion, be difficult to fpecify any object of literary inveftiga~
Vor. I. U tion
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