This is perhaps an egotistical book; egotistical certainly in its form, yet not in its purport and essence. Personal reasons the writer cannot wholly disown, for desiring to explain himself to more than a few, who on religious grounds are unjustly alienated from him. If by any motive of curiosity or lingering remembrances they may be led to read his straightforward account, he trusts to be able to show them that he has had _no choice_ but to adopt the intellectual conclusions which offend them;--that the difference between them and him turns on questions of Learning, History, Criticism and Abstract Thought;--and that to make _their_ results (if indeed they have ever deeply and honestly inve…
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