The Arguments of the Emperor Julian Against the Christians — page 13: what you’re looking at

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vi PREFACE. Would it not be better to waive illustrations of my theme, that tend to make you acquainted with religious discussions, or free-thinking assertions, broached in foreign countries, but totally excluded from your own? Were I addressing an illiterate assembly, or were these lectures directed to the ‘nstruction of those who have not travelled—I will not say, out of their own country, but—out of their own literature, I own I might be inclined to avoid the mooting of such dangerous inquiries. Or, were the rationalist philosophy of the conti- nent, of that seductive kind, which ensnares the dallying imagination, or catches the unwary and casual inquirer, I should feel it a duty to close, rather than to open, any avenue, which could lead into its enchanted gardens. But the case is far otherwise in both regards. For, in the first place, all know in general, that many such strange " fond objections have been made by philosophers of France or Germany; however superficially acquainted with f literature in these two countries, st fifty years, is familiar with the se who have laboured in the unholy CONMIE DOOKS.CO mn