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Title: Some Remains (hitherto unpublished) of Joseph Butler, LL.D.

Author: Joseph Butler

Editor: Edward Steere

Release Date: March 12, 2007 [eBook #20801]

Language: English

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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SOME REMAINS (HITHERTO
UNPUBLISHED) OF JOSEPH BUTLER, LL.D.***

Transcribed from the 1853 Rivingtons edition by David Price, email
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SOME REMAINS
(HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED)
OF
JOSEPH BUTLER, LL.D.

SOMETIME
LORD BISHOP OF DURHAM.

"I am more indebted to his writings than to those of any other
_uninspired_ writer, for the insight which I have been enabled to
attain into the motives of the Divine Economy and the grounds of moral
obligation."

_From a Letter of the late Bishop Kaye_, _of Lincoln_.

LONDON:
RIVINGTONS, WATERLOO PLACE.
1853.

LONDON:
GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, PRINTERS,
ST. JOHN'S SQUARE

PREFACE.

It has long been a subject of regret that we should have so few remains
of so great a writer as the author of the "Analogy," not only the
greatest thinker of his day, but one almost equally remarkable for his
personal religion and amiability.

The few fragments and letters which remain unpublished, derive from this
circumstance a value wholly incommensurate with their extent, though, as
to the few I have been able to recover, they seem to me worthy of notice
even for their own sake.

There can, I suppose, be no doubt but that many letters on subjects
connected with their common pursuit,--the defence of religion by rational
arguments,--must have passed between Dr. Clarke and the "Gentleman in
Gloucestershire," even up to the time of the former's decease; and the
specimen I am now able to exhibit certainly excites a wish that one could
recover more of a series which it is most likely that Dr. Clarke at least
carefully preserved. The three letters now printed were all addressed to
Dr. Clarke; the first and last, though little known, were published many
years ago in the European Magazine.