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which will come in time, than, by setting our 

 brains on the rack after causes and effects here, 

 to lose the profit of the fleeting hours which pass 

 like shades along a parabolic line to return no 

 more. After wading through all the dull labours 

 of Locke, Hobbes, Des Cartes, and a hundred other 

 philosophers, we shall be convinced, after much 

 loss of time, that metaphysics has not advanced 

 much since the time of Aristotle, and we ought 

 to be mindful of the emphatic description of 

 the two lives, given us by the apostle ; — Videinus 

 nunc per speculum in aenigmate, tunc autem 

 facie ad faccra ; nunc cognosco ex parte ; tunc 

 autem cognoscam, sicut et cognitus sum ; nunc 

 autem manet, Fides, Spes, Charitas, tria 

 haec, major autem horum est Charitas. 



Answer to some false Objections raised against 

 the Catholic Religion. 



Objection 1. It is objected to the Catholic 

 religion, that we worship images, and are there- 

 fore guilty of idolatry. 



Answer. Perhaps no assertion is more false 

 than this. The word Idolatry, from Idol and 

 Latreia, signifies the giving of supreme wor- 

 ship to images, a thing more strictly forbid by 

 the Catholic church than by almost any other 

 religion whatever. We are directed to hold 4» 

 veneration pious images, reliques, and pictures, 



