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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: tianity, in its essence, is that which beckons and urges onward, not to excellence only, but to perfection. Of course its mark is always in advance of the present. By such union with Paganism then, or Judaism, its essential characteristic will disappear; Christianity will, in effect, perish. You may suppose, accordingly, that Probus, and others who with him rate Christianity so differently, look on with anxiety upon this downward progress, and with mingled sorrow and indignation upon those who aid it ? oftentimes actuated, as is notorious, by most corrupt motives. I am just returned from the shop of the learned Pub- lius, where I met Probus, and others of many ways of thinking. You will gather from what occurred, better than from anything else I could say, what occupies the thoughts of our citizens, and how they stand affected. I called to Milo to accompany me, and to take with him a basket in which to bring back books, which it was my intention to purchase. ' I trust, noble master, ' said he, ' that I am to bear back no more Christian books.' ' Why so, knave ?' ' Because the priests say that they have magical powers over all who read them, or so much as handle them; that a curse sticks wherever they are or have been. I have heard of those who have withered away to a mere wisp; of others who have suddenly caught on fire, and vanished in flame and smoke; and of others whose blood has stood still, frozen, or run out from all parts of the body, changed to the very color of your shoe, at their bare touch. Who should doubt that it is so, when the very boys in the streets have it, and it is taught in the temples ? I would rather Solon, noble master, went in my stead. Mayhap his learning would protect him.' I, laughing, bade him come on. ' You are not withered away yet, ..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217744034 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217744036 |
| Weight | 0.90 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.62 In |
| List Price | $21.98 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 276 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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