RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF MAN;

IN WHICH

Religion and Superstition

ARE

TRACED FROM THEIR SOURCE.

BY D. MORISON.

Behold, God exalteth by His power who teacheth like Him?

Who hath enjoined Him His way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?
Remember that thou magnify His work, which men behold.

Every man may see it, man may behold it afar off.

SECOND EDITION.

JOB XXXVI. 22-25.

LONDON:

SMITH, ELDER AND CO., 65, CORNHILL,

THE AUTHOR TO HIS MOTHER.

THE Dedication of the first edition of this work to the Queen, was objected to by many; chiefly on the ground of the improbability of it ever reaching Her Majesty's hands.

I have reason to doubt the validity of this objection, for there are circumstances, known to one of Her Majesty's confidential servants and myself, which rather tend to favour the belief that Her Majesty did personally receive the volume. At all events, it was not to the Queen individually, but to Her Majesty, as the professed Head of a professedly Christian community, that I dedicated a public appeal to the text-book of that community.

One part of that Dedication, however, I have always felt could have been addressed with much

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greater propriety to you, my dear mother; for no one knows better that the enquiry into TRUTH, which is the subject of the following pages, owes all its strength to THE SOURCE from whence it is drawn, and all its weakness to the pen of

Your affectionate Son,

London, March, 1842.

DAVID MORISON.