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No man has nor can have exactly the same experience. The poet is inspired, the soldier thrills with hope of glory, the statesman prepares conditions of society, the theologian is instinct with Divine truth, and every one, in use of mental chemistry and moral power, can tell something special of human experience. We walk with consciousness of the now, are aware of the past, and prepare for the future. We save that we may give, and give that we may truly save; use of the riddle makes every user rich. Let none who have hope as princes wander as beggars; nor choose the sad task of gathering the flotsam and jetsam of a wrecked life without part or lot in coming truth and glory.

For various emendations I am indebted to the late Reverend William Kay, D.D., Rector of Great Leghs, and Honorary Canon of St. Albans, to the Reverend Professor T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., and to the late Mr. John Henry Gurney, Northrepps Hall, Norwich. My friend the late Mr. William Kitchen Parker, F.R.S., enabled me to make several valuable improvements. To Dr. P. Martin Duncan, F.R.S., who revised the whole work, thanks are due. My friend Mr. Charles Lavers Smith, with loving labour, care, and skill, prepared the excellent index. To you, my Lord, belongs that high praise—“Sanctus sancte sancta tractat."

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"He loved to serve-whose service saveth me.
In serving Him-I shall your servant be."

JOSEPH WILLIAM REYNOLDS.

The Right Hon. and Right Reverend

John Jackson, D.D.,

Lord Bishop of London.

“LA vérité est toute pour tous."--PAUL-LOUIS COURIER.

"THOUGH one were to allow any confused undetermined sense, which people might please to put upon the word natural, it would be a shortness of thought scarce credible to imagine, that no system or course of things can be so, but only what we see at present; the only distinct meaning of that word is stated, fixed, or settled; since what is natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, i.e., to effect it continually, or at stated times, as what is supernatural or miraculous does to effect it at once."-BUTLER'S "Analogy of Religion," Part I. Natural Religion, Chap. i.