edition of his Charges, and I have little of my own to add to it. For the mere historian of theological movements, his name will probably be chiefly conspicuous as a connecting link between the teaching of Coleridge and that which has since his death attracted notice as identified in popular language with the school of "Broad Church" theologians,—as one who contributed by personal influence and example, as well as by direct teaching, to foster the study of that German philosophy and divinity which seems to many so fraught with evil. He and Arnold and Bunsen will take their place as the leading representatives of a school which afterwards developed into a party, accepting to the full the principles of free critical inquiry, yet clinging, with a warmth and devotion in which many later leaders of thought in the same direction have been wanting, to the old truths, and maintaining, with unshaken confidence to the end, what some of them have been led to disparage or deny. Those who are not yet far enough removed in time or affection to judge with the cool discernment of the historian, may rejoice in the testimony continually given, by men of very diverse opinions, and hardly less in other countries than in our own,* that the effect of his writings on them has been to give clearness to what was before dim, and confidence where before they wavered. They find it some help to remember, amid the changes of our time, as the pendulum oscillates between Romanism and Unbelief, that one who knew more than most men the masterworks on either side, fell back upon the faith of Luther and St. Paul. They believe that such a man's Guesses at Truth are likely to be more helpful than many elaborate

*See eg. an interesting memoir by P. Schaff in Herzog's Real-Encyklo pädie, vol. xix,

"apologies" and "vindications," and they send this volume forth on its new course in the hope that it may continue for many years to come, to awaken, purify, and strengther. those who have to struggle with the falsehoods and perplexities that beset them.

E. H. P.

FIRST SERIES.

Χρυσὸν οἱ διζήμενοι, φησὶν Ηράκλειτος, γῆν πολλην ὀρύσσουσι, καὶ εὑρίσκουσιν ὀλίγον.

Clem. Alex. Strom. IV. 2. p. 565.

As young men, when they knit and shape perfectly, do seldom grow to a further stature; so knowledge, while it is in aphorisms and observations, it is in growth; but when it once is comprehended in exact methods, it may perchance be further polished and illustrated, and accomnodated for use and practice; but it increaseth no more in bulk and substance.

Bacon, Advancement of Learning, B. I.

ADVERTISEMENT TO THE THIRD

EDITION.

THIS third edition is little else than a reprint of the second, with the addition of a quotation here and there in support of opinions previously exprest, and with the insertion of some half a dozen passages, partly to vindicate or to correct those opinions, partly to enforce them by reference to later events, partly to prevent their being misconstrued in behalf of certain errours which have recently become

current.

October 6th, 1847.

GUESSES AT TRUTH.

THE virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances : Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.

Moral prejudices are the stopgaps of virtue: and, as is the case with other stopgaps, it is often more difficult to get either out or in through them, than through any other part of the fence.

A mother should desire to give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm, to the end that, after they have lost all they are sure to lose in mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt and support them through great actions. A cloak should be of three-pile, to keep its gloss in wear.

The heart has often been compared to the needle for its constancy has it ever been so for its variations? Yet were any man to keep minutes of his feeelings from youth to age, what a table of variations would they present! how numerous! how diverse! and how strange! This is just what we find in the writings of Horace. If we consider his occasional effusions,--and such they almost all are,—as