Infidelity has had, in consequence, a degree of success very little suspected by simple-minded pastors and parents, and which is often discovered too late for remedy.
This book is written to expose the _folly_ of some of these novel systems of Infidelity--leaving others to show their wickedness.

It may surprise some who would glory in being esteemed fiends, to learn that they are only fools.

If they should be awakened now to a sense of the absurdities which they cherish as philosophy, it might save them from awaking another day to the shame and everlasting contempt of the universe.
I have not taken up all the cavils of Infidelity.

Their name is Legion.
Nor have I troubled my readers with any which they are not likely to hear.

Leaving the sleeping dogs to lie, I have noticed only such as I have known to bark and bite in my own neighborhood, and know to be rife here in the West.