ESSAYS AND REVIEWS CHIEFLY ON THEOLOGY, POLITICS, AND SOCIALISM. BY O. A. BROWNSON, L.L. D. NEW YORK: D. & J. SADLIER & Co. 164 WILLIAM-STREET. MONTREAL, C. E: CORNER OF ST. FRANCIS XAVIER AND NOTRE-DAME STREETS. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1852, BY D. & J. SADLIER & CO. In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the 168132 Stereotyped by VINCENT L DILL 128 Fulton-street, N. Y. PREFACE, CONTENTS. THE EPISCOPAL OBSERVER VERSUS THE CHURCH, THORNWELL'S ANSWER TO DR. LYNCH, (April, 1848.) THORNWELL'S ANSWER TO DR. LYNCH, (October, 1848.) PROTESTANTISM ENDS IN TRANSCENDENTALISM, PROTESTANTISM IN A NUTSHELL, AUTHORITY AND LIBERTY, POLITICAL CONSTITUTIONS, PRE FACСЕ. THE following essays and reviews are republished from Brownson's Quarterly Review. They have been subjected to a rigid revision, but are reproduced as originally published, excepting a few verbal corrections, the suppression of a few superfluous sentences, and the omission of some paragraphs which have lost their interest. It is very possible that in selecting these articles for republication, I have not chosen those which the student of theology or philosophy would have recommended, nor even those which I myself regard as the least unworthy of my writings during the past seven or eight years; but essays of a somewhat abstruse and metaphysical nature, though they may be tolerated in a periodical where they appear along with others of a less unpopular cast, will hardly find in these times readers if published in a volume by themselves. I have selected such articles as have seemed to me best adapted to the tastes of the general reader, and the most likely to be useful to the public at large, whether Catholic or Protestant. The reader must not expect too much from these articles, and must be content to take them for what they are,-simply articles originally written for a Quarterly Review. They are by no means separate and complete treatises on the several topics they discuss. But, if read in connection, in the order in which I have arranged them, they may, perhaps, be found to give a |