Excerpt from The Second Eve: Or, the Mother of Life; Recollections and Prayers, for Every Day in the Month of Mary, and for the Other Days Consecrated to the Mother of God We have given the title of Recollections to this work, that our readers may not be tempted to seek or even to sup pose they can find any thing new in it. The thoughts, and the prayers of which it is composed are, in fact, recollections of what the faith, the wisdom, and the piety of our fathers have handed down to us from age to age, from the very first centuries of the Church. If they appear here and there in a new light, it is because truth has never been grasped on all sides, nor has ever been embraced entirely by the mind of man, and that no one can gaze attentively on that truth which is always old without discovering there beauties which are always new. But what are these Recollections? Are they meditations? Doubtless they contain matter for meditation, but they are not meditations. They are religious re flections, the greater part of which require only a little modification to become instructions on the knowledge and the cultus or worship of the Blessed Virgin. We had at first, indeed, intended to give them this general title, which we afterwards changed for that of The Second Eve; or, the Mother of Life, as corresponding more entirely to their fundamental idea, and as better suited for a work intended chiefly for persons in the world. 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.