PROLOGUE OF MOTTOES.
"Antiquity deserveth that reverence that men should make a stand thereupon, and discover what is the best way; but when the discovery is well taken, then to make progression."—Lord Bacon.
"The faith in the perpetual progression of human nature toward perfection—will, in some shape, always be the creed of virtue."—Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
"The Lutheran clergy have exhibited this spirit of priestcraft under their consistorial polity, and the Calvinist under their presbyterian form of government, as much as the Oriental, Roman, and Anglican bishops; it was manifested as much at Wittemberg, Geneva, and Dort, as at Jerusalem, Rome, and Canterbury."—Christian Charles Josias Bunsen.
"Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ."—Ephesiansiv. 13.