EDITOR’S NOTICE.

of this manual, suitable for all faiths cultes: refers to organized religions or systems of worship, which it respects; for all ages, which it instructs; for all walks of life, which it consoles—from the monarch to the beggar. Sentiment and reason original: "Le sentiment & la raison" — the author invokes the two pillars of 18th-century thought to justify her decision have led me, in agreement, to share with my brothers the encouraging hopes, the peaceful resignation, and the stirrings toward perfection with which I found myself filled. Strengthened by a happiness that was unknown to me until then, I brave the ridicule that "strong minds" esprits forts: a term for freethinkers or skeptics who prioritized secular reason over spiritual or "mystical" experiences—who are actually weak—will cast upon me; and in advance, I forgive them for the sorrows they may wish to inflict in exchange for the happiness to which I invite the reader, and which sooner or later will become their own.