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indignities. We are brothers born. So are there certain laws of reason which men generally acknowledge and always use; and there are certain facts apparent in all human being, which the various sets and sorts of men confess to, under the tuition of experience in their peculiar callings, age after age, and which no man of credit denies.—What we mean by democratic theology is the aggregate conclusion from the common and admitted experience of man, by the common and admitted laws of reason, as to the nature of divinity, the necessities of nature, and the course and policy of life: and this conclusion must appeal to no other authority than the common sense of the men in whom our facts are born. We desire to show that, without aid from any revelation of peculiar consciousness, there is deducible, at least in this late age, a most hopeful, glorious theology from the common lot of man—a lesson from the ages gone before.

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