Excerpt from Cambridge Free Thoughts and Letters on Bibliolatry: Translated From the GermanThe highest privilege, and the chiefest consola tion of man, consists in communion with his Maker. The purest of pleasures in life, is to attend the auld kirk with Father and Mother, in childlike reverence, that knows not doubt. We all of us fain would die in the same faith, wherein our fathers died.But the age of reason succeeds to the age of innocence. What was the strength of the child may be the weakness of the man. That faith which was to be the guardian of our moral nature, may become a blind credulity, destructive of our high birthright - intellectual freedom of thought.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.