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Excerpt from Essays, Reviews, and Addresses: Ecclesiastical, Historical
The following papers differ from the Theological and Philosophical Essays reserved for the next Volume, not so much in their main subject, as in their mode of treating it. In dealing with a religious problem, they address them selves, not to its theoretic essence, but to its practical bearings on human life in historic schools and organized Churches. Called forth for the most part by some social event, like The Papal Aggression, or some special pub lication, like an Oxford Tract, now half-forgotten, they might seem to be without excuse for their reappearance; were it not that, for the right appreciation of transient phenomena, appeal must often be made to critical prin ciples far from transient. I have given nothing a place in these pages without first satisfying myself that its mode of reasoning and rules of moral judgment are available, mama's mutandz}, no less for the determination of still pending questions, than for a right verdict on the parties and controversies of the. Past.
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