Excerpt from The Works of Orestes a Brownson, Vol. 1
In offering to the public a new edition of the writings of the late Orestes A. Brownson a few remarks may be permitted by way of explanation and for the purpose of calling the reader's attention to certain of the more important points contained in them.
It should be borne in mind that the author of these volumes became a publicist at the age of only a little over twenty years, and for fifty years was before the public as a preacher, a lecturer, and a writer. Starting with a belief in the progressive perfectibility of the human race, and the denial of all authority except that of humanity, that is, of the people, or the masses, he did not claim that he was in possession of any truth to be taught, or that his views were either mature or sound. Humanity had outgrown the errors of its infancy and was moving on with an irresistible progress towards moral and intellectual truth; but as yet it had gone but a little way. Ages and ages were to elapse before it should attain its final destiny and its full development. The Christianity of to-day was far in advance of what it was as taught by Jesus, for it had grown and developed with eighteen centuries of the growth and development of the race.
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