ITS RELIGIOUS ORIENTATION BY PAUL SABATIER И TRANSLATED FROM THE SECOND FRENCH EDITION BY HENRY BRYAN BINNS SHADOWS IT ARE E LIBRARY OF THE CALIFORN LONDON: J. M. DENT & SONS, LTD. PREFACE TO THE SECOND FRENCH EDITION WHY should I not confess that I was glad when I heard that this volume was to be reprinted a few months after its appearance? Did it not afford a striking indication of the new tendencies everywhere manifest in our country? Moreover, these pages had had the result I foresaw and desired; they had been criticised with equal vigour by every party and Church. I thought at one time of replying here to all those criticisms. I have abandoned the idea, which would have swelled this book to undue proportions; but I wish at least to express my warm thanks to their writers. I am especially grateful to those teachers who have been so good as to write to me of their doubts, their hopes and endeavours. If they will kindly continue to confide their experience to me, some day, perhaps, I may try to draw from it more precise and efficacious conclusions as to the evolution of moral and religious education. PAUL SABATIER. La Maisonnette, PAR S. SAUVEUR DE MONTAGUT, Oct. 1, 1912. 280620 |