PART I
RELIGIOUS MYSTERIES
PROBLEMS FOR SOLUTION
I.—To demonstrate in a certain and absolute manner the
existence of God, and to give an idea of Him which will
satisfy all minds.
II.—To establish the existence of a true religion in such a
way as to render it incontestable.
III.—To indicate the bearing and the vazson a@étre of all
the mysteries of the one true and universal religion.
IV.—To turn the objections of philosophy into arguments
favourable to true religion.
V.—To draw the boundary between religion and super-
stition, and to give the reason of miracles and prodigies.
PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS
WHEN Count Joseph de Maistre, that grand and passion-
ate lover of Logic, said despairingly, “The world is without
religion,” he resembled those people who say rashly “ There
is no God.”
The world, in truth, is without the religion of Count
Joseph de Maistre, as it is probable that such a God as the
majority of atheists conceive does not exist.
Religion is an idea based upon one constant and universal
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