Chapter I: Preface

All the Essays in this volume, except the first, have appeared in the _Edinburgh Review_, the _Quarterly Review_, or the _Hibbert Journal_. I have to thank the Publishers and Editors of those Reviews for their courtesy in permitting me to reprint them. The articles on _The Birth-Rate, The Future of the English Race, Bishop Gore and the Church of England_, and _Cardinal Newman_ are from the _Edinburgh Review_; those on _Patriotism, Catholic Modernism, St. Paul_, and _The Indictment against Christianity_ are from the _Quarterly Review_; those on _Institutionalism and Mysticism_ and _Survival and Immortality_ from the _Hibbert Journal_. I have not attempted to remove all traces of overlapping, which I hope may be pardoned in essays written independently of each other; but a few repetitions have been excised.

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