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To the Members of the Legal Profession Gentlemen, The subject of the following work I hope will not be deemed so foreign to our professional pursuits, as to render it improper for me to dedicate it, as I now respectfully do, to you. If a close examination of the evidences of Christianity may be expected of one class of men more than another, it would seem incumbent on us, who make the law of evidence one of our peculiar studies. Our profession leads us to explore the mazes of falsehood, to detect its artifices, to pierce its thickest veils, to follow and expose its sophistries, to compare the statements of different witnesses with severity, to discover truth and separate it from error. Our f...
Concerns Greenleaf's upcoming trip to Maine, and proofing of his forthcoming book, possibly an edition of A treatise on the law of evidence. The addressees, Houghton and Hayward, are possibly Henry Oscar Houghton, founder of the Riverside Press in 1852, and John Hayward, a printer in Boston.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.
A reprint of the 1847 second edition of Simon Greenleaf's influential work examining the four Gospels in light of the rules of evidence, this book is certain to continue Greenleaf's influence for another generation. A renown professor from Harvard, his arguments shaped the discussion on Christianity then and they will shape them now. This book contains an index to assist the researcher in his efforts.