I am well aware that it has lain far beyond my powers to take any
share in this great undertaking. All that I can hope is to have done
somewhat towards "the preparation of those who have ceased to be
contented with the old and find no satisfaction in half measures":
perhaps, also, something towards the lessening of that great
proportion of my countrymen, whose eminent characteristic it is that
they find "full satisfaction in half measures."
T.H.H.
HODESLEA, EASTBOURNE,
_December 4th, 1893_.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] D.F. Strauss, _Der alte und der neue Glaube_
(1872), pp. 9, 10.
[2] _Collected Essays_, vol. ii., "On the Origin of
Species" (1860).
[3] 1 John iii. 8.
[4] Not necessarily of more than this. A few centuries
ago the twelve most intelligent and impartial men to be
found in England, would have independently testified
that the sun moves, from east to west, across the
heavens every day.
[5] Nowhere more concisely and clearly than in Dr.
Sutherland Black's article "Gospels" in Chambers's
_Encyclopaedia_. References are given to the more
elaborate discussions of the problem.
[6] Those who regard the Apocalyptic discourse as a
"vaticination after the event" may draw conclusions
therefrom as to the date of the Gospels in which its
several forms occur.
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