TRACTS FOR THE PEOPLE.

TRACTS FOR THE PEOPLE,

DESIGNED TO VINDICATE

RELIGIOUS AND CHRISTIAN

LIBERTY.

Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potencie of
life in them, to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are:
nay, they do preserve as in a viol the purest efficacy and extraction
of that living intellect that bred them. Many a man lives a burden
to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-
spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
MILTON.

LONDON:

EFFINGHAM WILSON, 18, BISHOPSGATE STREET;

J. SMALLFIELD, 69, NEWGATE STREET.

1840.