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very widely revered. Let the writer state the most probable

occasion of trouble forthwith. An issue upon which this book will

be found particularly uncompromising is the dogma of the Trinity.

The writer is of opinion that the Council of Nicaea, which forcibly

crystallised the controversies of two centuries and formulated the

creed upon which all the existing Christian churches are based, was

one of the most disastrous and one of the least venerable of all

religious gatherings, and he holds that the Alexandrine speculations

which were then conclusively imposed upon Christianity merit only

disrespectful attention at the present time. There you have a chief

possibility of offence. He is quite unable to pretend any awe for

what he considers the spiritual monstrosities established by that

undignified gathering. He makes no attempt to be obscure or

propitiatory in this connection. He criticises the creeds

explicitly and frankly, because he believes it is particularly

necessary to clear them out of the way of those who are seeking

religious consolation at this present time of exceptional religious

need. He does little to conceal his indignation at the role played

by these dogmas in obscuring, perverting, and preventing the

religious life of mankind. After this warning such readers from

among the various Christian churches and sects as are accessible to

storms of theological fear or passion to whom the Trinity is an

ineffable mystery and the name of God almost unspeakably awful, read

on at their own risk. This is a religious book written by a

believer, but so far as their beliefs and religion go it may seem to