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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 46

Postscript

Postscript.

When I commenced this article I did not think of its being reprinted in the shape of a pamphlet; neither did I intend it to be so long. But so many expressed their opinion as to the desirableness of having it put into the form of a little Book that I gave my consent. Could I, however, have foreseen this, I should have written more fully in several places, where (owing to its being for the columns of a newspaper—in which I could not expect to be allowed much room—) I was obliged to shorten considerably my remarks: moreover, I should also have more particularly noted the many quotations I have everywhere given from the works of far abler men than myself, of which I have made great use,—especially as to the edition, the volume, the chapter, and the page. Indeed, I am throughout more of a Compiler than an Original Author, and happy am I in having had it m my power to bring forward so many noble and independent, Christian and Scholarly authorities, Ancient and Modern,—of all ages, of all places, of all classes, and of all opinions—who are as one in this great and important question. May their united testimony have that reasonable weight with the readers of this little pamphlet which it has had with me!

Napier, Dec. 14, 1878.