AND OTHER LECTURES. BY THE REV. F. D. MAURICE. EDITED, WITH A PREFACE, BY T. HUGHES, M.P. London: MACMILLAN AND CO. 1874. is reserved PREFACE. MANY of those who were most intimately associated with the late Mr. Maurice, in the untiring and manysided work upon which he so freely spent himself for his country and his fellow-men, were inclined, while he lived, to feel indignant and discouraged that so utterly noble and brave a life was not better appreciated. That the first theologian of their time, who had done more than any other man to widen and deepen English thought, should be entirely ignored by the dispensers of Church patronage, might not indeed have surprised them. He was not of the stuff of which dignitaries are made. It is a rare chance in Church government which lands prophets or apostles in stalls or thrones. But he had claims on the reading and working classes of the nation such as no other man had, and which also seemed to be ignored except by a small minority. His "History of Moral and Metaphysical Philosophy" (to mention one only of his greater works) was a mine of learning |