The Arguments of the Emperor Julian Against the Christians — page 16: what you’re looking at

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PREFACE. " 1x Religion, seeks men and books which only tend to lead him from his Religious Belief. Again, men will not go to the root of a sub- ject; they are too often content with a brief cri- ticism. Over and over again have I heard young men raise objections to Christianity, and, when I asked them where they heard them, I am told, ‘Oh! the ‘ Pall Mall Gazette’ says so.” I ask him, “Do you know who wrote the article” “No,” he replies. I ask him if he has certified the truth of the quotations and observations of the unknown writer. He again says “ No.” This is the curse of the present day,—anony- mous writing. Could the man who lays great weight on an article because written m the ‘ Pall Mall Gazette’ or ‘Times,’ learn who the writer was, he might often say to him, “ What the do you know about the matter?’ Could he know that many of the. writers for the press are barristers who are briefless, doctors who have no patients, clergymen without livings ; in short, men who have failed in their own professions, he would no longer bow down to that “ Unknown Gop”—the anonymous newspaper article. Might Gonnic HOO) SS (CO mn