Excerpt from Brownson's Quarterly Review, Vol. 1: January, 1864 With this number we commence a new series of our Review. Henceforth the Review is to be national and sec ula1, devoted to philosophy, science, politics, literature, and the general interests of civilization, especially American civilization. It ceases to be a theological Review, and though it will defend religion, and prove itself in the prin ciples which govern it truly Christian, it will defend the special interests of the Catholic Church only as they are implied ln the freedom of conscience and the religious and civil liberty of the citizen. The Editor has not changed his faith, or abated ln his zeal for the Communion to which he has been warmly attached for the last twenty years, and whose doctrine and discipline he has labored as well as he could to explain and defend but, for reasons satisfactory to himself, he Withdraws his Review from the field of theologi. Cal discussion and sectarian controversy, and restricts it for the future to those great public questions and gene1al inter ests of Ch1istian civilization, which can be fully discussed without trenching upon auv ground debated between Catho lics and Protestants. 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.