Compendium of Philosophical History

the vices of the learned. Others bestowed their laudable effort on the task of illustrating these precepts of philosophy with their own commentaries and observations, and of recounting more fully what was briefly stated. Among these, our IO. IACOBUS LEHMANNUS, the most praiseworthy public professor of moral philosophy at this university, must be named first. For after he had explained BUDDEUS's elements for many years in his philosophical schools, and had collected many things while occupied with these studies that would bring light to them, he decided to deliver these observations, divided into parts, for public use. He began to carry out in practice what was proposed with such a salutary plan. In the year 1724 he published the first part of observations, in which the institutions of eclectic philosophy of the most famous philosopher and theologian IO. FRANCISCUS BUDDEUS are illustrated