Excerpt from Clark's Foreign Theological Library, Vol. 20
In this state of affairs, a monograph upon this subject would not be complete, without examining the theories of opponents, however great their confusion may frequently be, as well as building up one's own. Even where there is so little agreement, so little common ground,iand on the other hand, so much opposition in details and in general principles, in the foundation as well as in the superstruc ture, it appears to me to be the duty. Of an author towards his readers, not only to tell them his own views and to defend them by rebutting unwarrantable and unsuccessful attacks, but to give them a full explanation of the opposite Views, and his reason for not adopt ing them, in order that they may be placed in circumstances to survey the whole ground of the questions in dispute, and to form their own independent judgment, even though they may be led to differ from the yiews and conclusions of the author himself.
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