THOMAS NELSON & SONS
LONDON, EDINBURGH, DUBLIN
AND NEW YORK

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PREFA СЕ.
(1869.)

Y foremost design in writing this
Preface is to address a word of

exhortation to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. In the essay which follows, the reader will often find Bishop Wilson quoted. To me and to the members of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge his name and writings are still, no doubt, familiar. But the world is fast going away from old-fashioned people of his sort, and I learnt with consternation lately from a brilliant and distinguished votary of the natural sciences, that he had never so much as heard of Bishop Wilson, and that he