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Excerpt from A Layman's Apology
Venturing to deal with questions involving both science and religion, is neither a savant nor a theologian, but emphatically a layman in both departments of study, laying no claim to author ity as an expounder Of either, and only endeavor ing to correlate certain universally accepted truths that speak for themselves, and deduce from them their sometimes overlooked but strictly logical consequences. Conceiving that man's relations to his maker, if he has a maker, are of all objects of thought the most vitally important, the writer has sought to learn, from the conclusions of science and the teachings of alleged divine revelation, some of the ultimate words that each would speak to the attentive mind in regard to our origin and our duty; and has then endeavored to compare the teachings of the one with those of the other, by no means. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
