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This work is neither a dogmatical treatise, nor a book of devotion, but something intermediate, belonging to a class which forms the link that unites these two orders of ideas. Religion nourishes the understanding with truth and the heart with sentiment. Hence there are two modes of viewing it-the one rational-the other edifying. From this two-fold aspect there arises another point of view, in which we consider the connexion of truths in relation to the development of love in the human soul. It is in this light we are about to view the mystery on which Catholic worship is based. In the first place, we observe that the Eucharistic dogma, is the complement of the primitive faith and worship of mankind; so that its detachment from religion would destroy the beautiful harmony of all the truths of which the latter is constituted. After having viewed it in its principle, and, if we may so express it, in its germ deposited in the bosom of the primitive religion, we glance at it in its results, namely in that manifestation of love of which it is the inexhaustible source; and we demonstrate that the order of sentiments which it produces and upholds is the complete developement, or the very perfection of the sentiments inspired by primitive faith; so that it cannot be retrenched from religion without assailing its vital principle-namely the spirit of life. This mystery is the heart of christianity. Such in short is the object of this treatise. Nothing being isolated in religion, which like God himself is essentially one, it is necessary, in order that it may be fully understood, to view each of its parts, not separately, but in its relation to the general plan of christianity; and the more clearly we conceive this admirable unity, the more love ought to increase with intelligence. If in this peculiar view this work will be found to contain some notions on the adorable present of Divine wisdom and goodness, Catholics will find therein new motives for attaching themselves to their faith, which will serve to nourish their devotion.

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