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bring into my teaching. I know the diffi- 

 culties which are inseparable from the chair 

 which I have the honour to occupy. It is 

 the privilege and the danger of Shemitic 

 studies to touch on the most important 

 problems in the history of the human race. 

 Freedom of thought knows no limit ; but 

 it necessitates that mankind should have 

 reached that degree of calm contemplation, 

 where it is not required to recognise God in 

 >?ach particular order of facts, simply because 

 He is seen in all things. Liberty, gentle- 

 men, when thoroughly understood, allows 

 these opposing claims to exist side by side. 

 1 hope, by your aid, that this course will 

 be a proof of it. As I shall not introduce 

 any dogmatism into my teaching ; as I shall 

 always confine myself to appealing to your 

 reason, while proposing to you, what I 

 believe to be the most probable, leaving 

 you always the most perfect freedom of 

 judgment, who can complain ? Only those 

 who believe they have a monopoly of truth. 

 But such persons must renounce now their 



