Posthumous Works

is possible, of all esprit de parti partisan spirit. They should not believe based on reports that these works are unintelligible, which might cause them to give up at the first difficulty or disdain to examine them deeply. We would even desire that if these readers were tempted to join the ranks of the obstinate enemies of la chose religieuse religious matters, they would suspend their decision for a moment before pronouncing on this most important of all things. But what would be most desirable is that many of those readers, weary of the diversity and the vanity of systêmes philosophiques philosophical systems, might still be found. Such readers would have preserved a sincere desire to know the truth and to deepen their understanding of the foundations upon which it rests. It is for readers hungry for this truth that Mr. St. Martin wrote; it is for them that we have made this collection. We dare to assure them in advance that the