CIV. PROLEGOMENA. 



falsehood. I recommend to the notice of the 

 reader the learned work on Mythology before 

 quoted, and also a small one entitled Herodote, 

 Historiendupeiiple Hebreii, sans le sai;oir,12mo. 

 Liege, 1799. — In these will be found the real ex- 

 planation of the sign of the Toisson d^ Or or Fleece 

 of Gedeon, of the Argonautic expedition, and of 

 other histories perverted by the fruitful imagination 

 of the autient poets, but in reality founded on true 

 religious history. These works furnish the best 

 antidotes I am acquainted with to the absurdities 

 of Dupuis, Volnay, and the Oedipus Judaicus 

 of Drummond. They are full of solid infor- 

 mation, and serve to confirm the Christian 

 Religion by unmasking the most powerful of all 

 the infidel writers, by disarming them all of their 

 strongest arguments drawn from the comparison 

 of contending religions, and by showing that all 

 superstitions are merely perversions of the one true 

 religion delivered by God to man in the most 

 antient of days, but variously perverted by the 

 human passions, as it spread laterally into divers 

 countries ; while we have it in its most perfect 

 state, consummated in our days, in the perfections 

 of catholic Christianity. Thus, while metaphysics 

 and philology have refuted the false arguments 

 got up against the reasonableness of Christianity ; 

 an extended knowledge of history, promoted by the 

 Jesuits, has destroyed all those which were levelled 



