If any man think I have offended against his religion, I must believe that his religion is not what it should be.

If anybody shall imagine that this is a work of religious controversy leveled at the Adventists, he will have wholly mistaken my meaning.

Literalism and fanaticism are not vices confined to any one sect.

They are, unfortunately, pretty widely distributed.

However, if-- -- And so on.
But why multiply examples of the half-dozen or more that I might, could, would, or should have written?
Since everybody is agreed that, nobody reads a preface, I have concluded to let the book go without any.
BROOKLYN, September, 1872.
"_And as he [Wordsworth] mingled freely with all kinds of men, he found a pith of sense and a solidity of judgment here and there among the unlearned which he had failed to find in the most lettered; from obscure men he heard high truths....