Excerpt from The Church's Attitude Towards Truth N ow I should much prefer to keep silent and I can certam derive no sort of advantage from any utter ance I may make, but it does seem cowardly to be thus requested to withdraw and never even to, state your own side of the case. The clergy with whom I sympathize are called traitors and perjurers and it is cowardly to submit to this without a word of protest. 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.