Book excerpt: Excerpt from Essay on Indifference in Matters of Religion Let no man turn aside from this book because he is not a Roman Catholic. Many men may find words and sentences in it with which they may disagree (as has been the case with the translator) but the main object of the book, as indicated by its title, is one that con cerns all men alike, and its arguments are more needed in England now, than when they were first written, to combat the rationalistic tendency developed by some of the Oxford Essays and the spirit of infidelity of Voltaire and Rousseau, which has penetrated wherever those French writers are read and understood. February 10, 1862. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.