1 8 Edward Livingston Youmans. 



and read Voltaire and Paine. Between these men and 

 divers champions of orthodoxy was waged constant 

 war, to Edward's great instruction. He was early 

 made familiar with the stock criticisms directed 

 against organized Christianity, yet his essentially re- 

 ligious nature forbade his ever joining in an attack 

 on institutions which, however faulty, he held to con- 

 tain a core supremely true. 



