Excerpt from A Letter to the Venerable Archdeacon Sinclair: On His Recent Charge Excuse me if, in the course of this letter, I make somewhat lengthy extracts, from two protestant writers to support me in contradicting you. It would be obviously inadequate simply to oppose my word to yours; and I could not feel at all satisfied with doing so little. However, I shall not take from dusty shelves writings two or three hundred years old to expose or justify the morals of the world that now is; nor shall I apply to voluminous writers of our own day, though I could find in their works statements condemnatory of almost everything said by you. I shall confine myself to quoting from two College Books - but pray, do not imagine that I am guilty of either innocence or imper tinence in opposing you with the humble learning of a mere Student's Manual. The two books to which I refer are already well known and deservedly held in high esteem. That they are mere Manuals is precisely what determines me to bring them forward. De signed to supply the youthful student with ordinary views of things, they afford a more trustworthy indi cation of the general belief than the learned and deep disputations of more ambitious writers. To show that I am not guilty of any injustice in my appreciation of your doings, I quote the following from The Pall Mall Gazette on the late Birmingham riots: It must however be owned, that one par ticular class of anti-popery lecturers do all they possibly can to pro voke riots. Their point of attack is the practice of Confession - their mode of attack is to extract from books of Casuistry those parts which relate to subjects which it is an outrage on decency to discuss in public. This form of ruffianism appears to be quite as injurious as the brickbats which it provokes, and, morally, much more disgraceful. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.