Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: to give to any disbeliever or doubter a more enlightened conception of the religion of Christ, and to diminish prejudices which often spring from incorrect teaching, I shall feel that I have not written in vain. Should any one be moved to controvert statements in the preceding pages, I shall not, partly for the reasons stated at the outset, feel obliged to make reply. I have no fear that candid readers will iufer from my silence that the propositions which have been stated above admit of no further defence. THE END. "A Series of concise and carefully prepared volumes on special eras of history. Each is devoted to a group of events of such importance as to entitle it to be regarded as an epoch. Each is also complete in itself, and has no especial connection with the other members of the series. The works are all written by authors selected by the editor on account of some especi?' qualifications for a portrayal of the period they respectively describe. The volumes form an excellent collection, especially adapted to the wants of a general reader."—CHARLES KENDALL ADAMS) President of Cornell University. " The Epochs of History ' seem to me to have been prepared with knowledge and artistic skill to meet the wants of a large number of readers. To the young they furnish an outline or compendium which may serve as an introduction to more extended study. To those who are older they present a convenient sketch of the heads of the knowledge which they have already acquired. The outlines are by no mearis destitute of spirit, and may be used with great profit for family reading, and in select classes or reading clubs."— NOAH PORTER, President of Yale College. " It appears to me that the idea of Morris in his Epochs is strictly in harmony with the philosophy of history—namely, tha...