The Works of Orestes A. Brownson, Vol. 2: Collected and Arranged (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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It is not without some misgiving' that I present the following essay to 1110 public; not, indeed, because I have any lack of Confidence in the soundness of its principles, or the combined analytical and synthetic pro cesses by which I attempt to demonstrate the existence of God, the fact -oi creation, providence, the moral law, and the ground of man's moral Obligation to worship God; but from a consciousness of my inability to do justice to the great thesis I have undertaken to defend, and my dis trust of the disposition of the public to receive and read with patience what is most likely to be treated as a metaphysical disquisition, and therefore as worthless. Nobody now reads metaphysical works. Or any works that pertain to the higher philosophy, and especially such as -attempt to vindicate theology as the science of sciences.

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