Excerpt from Why Do the Clergy Avoid Discussion, and the Philosophers Discountenance It? The reader is not to understand me as assuming that every one who avoids controversy does so for all the six causes assigned, but that those who discourage and discountenance it are much influenced by one or other of these causes. The term Clergy, for the sake of convenience, I use in the comprehensive sense of signifying the Catholic priest, the pastors of the Established Church, and of the Dissenting and Presby terian Congregations. 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.