The Arguments of the Emperor Julian Against the Christians — page 12: what you’re looking at

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PREFACE. ' In the present day many works are published with the openly avowed intention of destroying Christianity. I therefore feel it a duty in bringing a work opposed to Christianity before the Public, openly to declare that I do so in the interest and on behalf of Christianity. I cannot do better, before going further, than quote the words of that able writer and well known Bishop, Cardinal Wiseman. In one of his lectures on the ‘Connection between Science and Revealed Religion,’ (fifth edition, page 250), he writes, “I must, however, premise some observations, which may apply to other cases, in future lectures, as well as the one in hand. Is it useful, it may be asked, or is it wholesome, to bring before you objections against sacred and solemn truths, which have never been proposed to you, and of which you perhaps are ignorant? COI G HOO SS (CO mn