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Excerpt from Memorial Edition of Collected Works of W. J. Fox, Vol. 1: Lectures, Sermons, Etc;, Prior to 1824 Shortly after the decease of William Johnson Fox, which took place on Friday, June 3, 1864, a Committee was assembled to consider the best form of a Memorial of his invaluable services to social and political progress, and especially to that freedom of inquiry in religion which he ever regarded as a duty inseparable from the right of private judgment. The Committee unanimously resolved to publish a Memorial Edition of Mr. Fox's Works, exhibiting the various phases of his mind in reference to theology, politics, education, literature, and criticism. The Memorial Edition, in twelve volumes, of which the first volume is now issued, will be found to contain (with the exception of the four volumes of Lectures to the Working Classes): 1. Nearly all the Discourses published during the life of Mr. Fox; 2. Numerous Lectures, supplementary to those on Religious Ideas, and on other subjects, left in the state of Ms. Reports, and placed at the disposal of the Committee by Mr. Fox's daughter, Mrs. Bridell; 3. The Anti-Corn-Law Speeches, and the Letters of a Norwich Weaver-Boy, both now first collected; 4. Articles on Dramatic and Literary Criticism, and Selections from other contributions to periodical literature. 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.