ON TRUTH AND ERROR: Thoughts, in Prose and Verse, ON THE PRINCIPLES OF TRUTH, AND THE CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF ERROR. BY JOHN HAMILTON, OF ST. ERNAN'S, M. A. OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. Cambridge: MACMILLAN AND CO. 1856. DEDICATION. TO THE READER. FRIEND, I DESIRE to be called so by you also; but that is not for the present my chief desire, though I am persuaded that, however unacquainted we may now be, we shall know each other; however at variance our thoughts and opinions may now be, we shall agree; and however there may possibly arise even a hostile feeling against the writer, when his words oppose the reader's views (and so seem to the reader to oppose the truth), yet we shall be friends, reconciled to each other, when both are fully reconciled to our LORD. I earnestly request you, Reader, now to deal fairly with this book. Do not lose sight of your purpose of pursuing the truth, nor turn aside from it, in order to hunt down the writer; not that |