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APOLOGETIC LECTURES

ON THE

FUNDAMENTAL TRUTHS OF CHRISTIANITY.

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PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.

URS is an apologetic age. Two views of the world stand opposed one to the other,

and contend together for the sway of the modern mind. It is, then, the task of the advocates of the Christian view to show, in the presence of. modern thought, and by the resources of modern intellectual culture, that it, and it alone, is the satisfactory solution of the problem of all existence, of human life and its enigmas, of the human heart and its inquiries, to prove that Christianity is truth, truth ever young and always fresh, universal truth, and therefore equally adapted and equally satisfying to all ages and all degrees of civilisation. A similar thought was the theme of Pascal in his Pensées. What he sketched in broad outline and left unfinished, should be carried out by us, his successors, with the resources and according to the necessities of our days. It will be easily recognised that the following Lectures have grown out of Pascal's Pensées.

My vocation as well as my inclination has for a long period occupied me with apologetic subjects; and b

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