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To the Reader
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and sordid things. Scorning the ancient and holy truths, how eagerly to-day do men search out doctrines whose only charm is that they seem new!
To these one might well repeat the ancient line: "Though broad and well known is the highway, you choose a narrow and obscure path."
For ourselves, we hold fast to the old and the established; and we study, we point out the way, and we set forth examples—often, so I hope and trust, to some useful purpose.
And may you, O Gentle Reader, look with favour upon our work.