The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic

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The effect of the perusal of this book, and the estimate put upon it by a reader, will depend upon his taking with him a right view of its design.  That design seems in the mind of the writer to have been very definite and very restricted.  If he should be thought to have intended an answer to all the elaborate objections from criticism and philosophy recently or renewedly urged against faith in the Christian revelation, and, still more, if the reader should suppose that the author had aimed to remove all the difficulties in the way of such a faith, he would equally insure his own disappointment, and wrong the writer.  The book comes forth anonymously, but it is ascribed to Mr. Henry Rogers, some of whose very able papers in the Edinburgh Review have been republished in two octavo volumes in England, and one of whose articles, that on “Reason and Faith,” dealt with some of the topics which form the subject-matter of this volume.