Excerpt from The Works of Orestes a Brownson: Collected and Arranged WE have nothing to say of the eneral character Of the author of this volume and very ittle Of the volume it self, as a simple literary production, detached from the sys tem in exposition and defence of which it appears to have been written. It is loosely, and even heavily written, in a flippant and affected style, and sins hardly less against gram mar and rhetoric than against piety and truth. It bears the marks of haste, and seems to have been hurriedly thrown to gether, from the author's common place-book and the fag ends of his sermons and discourses, and sent forth to the public without his having taken the time or the pains to melt his heterogeneous materials down into a common mass, or to think out, so to speak, the principles he had rashly ado ted, in their systematic relations, and logical connexions an con sequences. It is crude, confused; without method, order, systematic unity, or scientific development. As the produc tion of a vain, conceited pedant and scofier, it may pass; but as the production of a scholar, a theologian, a man ambitious of contributing to the literature of his countr and establish ing a high literary and scientific character 0 his own, - the less we say of it, the more Shall we consult the credit of the author. 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.