SIX LECTURES DELIVERED IN WILLIS'S ROOMS, LONDON, IN JUNE AND JULY, 1854. THE RELIGION OF ROME, AND ITS INFLUENCE ON MODERN CIVILIZATION. FOUR LECTURES DELIVERED IN THE PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTION OF EDINBURGH, IN DECEMBER, 1854. BY FREDERICK DENISON MAURICE, M.A. CHAPLAIN OF LINCOLN'S INN. Cambridge: MACMILLAN & CO. 1855. ΤΟ JOHN MALCOLM LUDLOW, ESQ. BARRISTER, LINCOLN'S INN. MY DEAR FRIEND, A LETTER, which I received from you early in the year 1848, when you had seen Paris immediately after the expulsion of the Orleans family, had a very powerful effect upon my thoughts at the time, and has given a direction to them ever since. I understood from it, better than I had ever done before, how hollow that material civilization was, of which Louis Philippe had been the great promoter in France, and which we had been well inclined to adopt and to worship in England. I felt, far more than I had ever done before, how much it was the duty of every man, but, above all, of every clergyman, to strive that the principle and power of Christian civilization, which is not based upon selfishness, which does not make the accumulation of material treasures or the increase of material enjoyments its main objects, might be recognised in the past history of Europe, and especially of our own country,-might influence and determine its future condition. We knew well how little you and I could do to counteract the evil, or bring forth the good, that is working in our time. But we knew also, that what we could do, we were bound to do. And I believe that in looking back upon the seven years that have elapsed since, we have both often felt bitter self-reproach, in considering how much more even we might have done, if we had followed the light which was granted us, to prevent the blessing of God's great judgments from being lost to our country,-how much we have shared in the sin of the rulers who, while those judgments were in the earth, did not learn righteousness, but returned, after a moment of terror, to their crooked ways. Nevertheless, I can truly say, that not only every task |