PREFACE. 



MUCH of what I have to say in the following pages is 

 likely to find little favour in a materialistic age like the 

 present. The zeit-geist, I know full well, is decidedly 

 against me : and, most assuredly, I should not have 

 cared to put myself in opposition to it if I could have 

 got rid of the feeling that truth was at stake, and that 

 it would be cowardly to keep silence. And yet I am 

 able to find some encouragement in the hope that my 

 words may not be altogether out of season, for I believe, 

 not only that the day will surely come in which all 

 opposition on the part of the spirit of the time will be 

 at an end, but also that there is light enough in the 

 east, even now, to make it certain that this day is 

 already dawning. 



LONDON : 



25, CAVENDISH SQUARE, 

 May, 1877. 



