Excerpt from Studies in the Philosophy of Religion and History The first and third Essays, and part third of the fourth, originally appeared in the Contemporary Review. The other parts of the latter formed the substance of two Lectures delivered, in the winter of 1874, to the Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh. The second paper was written in the summer of 1875, but has not before been printed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.