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ON THE

APPLICATION

OF

METAPHYSICAL AND ETHICAL SCIENCE

TO THE

EVIDENCES OF RELIGION;

DELIVERED BEFORE THE LOWELL INSTITUTE IN BOSTON,
IN THE WINTERS OF 1848-49.

BY

FRANCIS BOWEN.

BOSTON:

CHARLES C. LITTLE AND JAMES BROWN.

1849.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1849, by

JOHN AMORY LOWELL,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

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TO

ANDREWS NORTON,

IN TOKEN OF RESPECT

FOR HIS EMINENT SERVICES TO THE CAUSE OF LETTERS, MORALS, AND RELIGION,

AND OF GRATITUDE

FOR MANY WORDS OF COUNSEL AND ACTS OF KINDNESS,

THESE LECTURES ARE INSCRIBED.

PREFACE.

THE substance of two of these Lectures, the second and the twelfth of the Second Course, has already appeared in print in the North American Review. In a few other instances, also, a paragraph has been borrowed from essays that have been for some time before the world. Whenever I have had occasion to adopt the language of others, the quotation has been distinguished in the ordinary way, and referred to its author.

Some apology may seem to be due from one who is not a clergyman, and who has never been, in the technical meaning of the phrase, a student of theology, for undertaking to lecture upon such a subject as the Evidences of Religion. For the many imperfections of my work, indeed, I am quite willing to plead the want of professional training as an excuse. But I am not sure that the public discussion of this subject ought to be given up altogether to the professed teach

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