"Garden of Eden" of all the universe.

"The fool doubts what a wise man tells him because the information is
new." You may doubt what I am telling you, but your doubt will cost
you your liberty.

I have your cause at heart and I have no ambition to gratify, as I am
an old man and have no other desire than to help those who need help,
and I have come as a friend to talk to you around your firesides,
with no mission but that of truth.

Many of us have never been told to our face that we were fools, but
because no man has been frank enough to tell us the truth is no
reason why we should not investigate what is told us, and which you
have no right nor reason to doubt.

The mission of this book is to get you to _think_ and to examine and
pry into the past history of Catholicism, and when you have examined
the pages of Catholic history and then scrutinize her present, you
must know that her future promises no more than her past and present
would indicate her future to hold.

This book is written from a Protestant standpoint, but by a man who
was a Catholic fifty-six years before he ever became a Protestant,
and we feel absolutely certain that the Catholic world will endeavor
to throttle its circulation, but we have laid aside every vestige of
fear from that standpoint and have made up our mind that we are no
better than Martin Luther, and thousands of Protestants who were
burned at the stake by Catholicism for proclaiming to the world the
awful deeds of that _awful creed_.