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Twelve lectures on the connexion between science and revealed religion ... / Delivered in Rome by Nicholas Wiseman.

  • Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman
Date:
1836
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Credit: Twelve lectures on the connexion between science and revealed religion ... / Delivered in Rome by Nicholas Wiseman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    several modern works, treating on the sub- jects of these Lectures, so that in regard to English books, I might say with the poet— « Quod si scriptorum non magna est copia apud me Hoc fit quod Rome vivimus, illa domus.” * Now the perusal of these caused occasional modifications in the opinions which I had previously adopted. But even when a work has appeared since the delivery of the Lec- tures, I have thought it advisable to introduce the mention of it into the text, rather than omit it to avoid an anachronism. On the whole, I am sensible that I have had neither leisure nor opportunity to improve them as might be expected, and that many more works might have been perused or consulted by me to great advantage. The form, therefore, in which my humble lucubrations appear before the public, is that of a third modification; and if the observation be true, that second thoughts are not the * Catullus ad Manlium, 33.
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