A DEFENCE OF "THE ECLIPSE OF FAITH," BY ITS AUTHOR; Henry Rogers BEING A REJOINDER TO PROFESSOR NEWMAN'S LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS. 141. C. 98. •BIBL PREFACE ΤΟ THE SECOND EDITION. THE demand for a second edition of the "Defence " has given me an early opportunity of correcting a few verbal errors, and smoothing two or three uncouth constructions, which, from the unusual rapidity with which the work was composed and printed, escaped the Author's eye. It is one of the disadvantages under which all such controversial pieces are written, that they must be given to the world at once or not at all. Most of the few inaccuracies referred to (and which are now corrected) would be rectified by the reader as soon as his eye detected them; but in three instances the sense was affected. Of these-now of course properly corrected—I have given the corrigenda at the close of the Appendix, that the purchasers of the first edition, who may feel so inclined, may insert the correction in their copies. And here I should have dismissed the volume, had not a recent article in the "Prospective Review" (to a former article in which the 15th section of the present volume refers) required a few "last words." As the following sheets were printed off before its appearance, I could not insert the remarks in the proper place, and they are therefore added to the Appendix. June 1. 1854. |