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xii than of Reasonings, of a tone of ecclesiastical feeling rather than of an outline of ecclesiastical organisation: to be, in fact, merely an incomplete, but not altogether an unconnected, series of considerations tending to prevent or to moderate extreme opinions on ecclesiastical questions. And for the very imperfectly informed or those who are no longer students, for those who are seeking mainly to confirm their own opinions or to confute the opinions of others, for the Hasty or the Dogmatical, they certainly are not written: but only for the Patient and the Thoughtful, for the Calm and the Earnest; for only they will know how much may be often learned from the communication of the thoughts of even the humblest fellowstudent.

May He who is equally Truth and Love keep us from Errour and from Anger, and to Him alone be Honour.


 * 22 September, 1834.