Ad Nationes Book I

Ad Nationes Liber I est scriptum a Tertulliano, uno ex primis scriptoribus Christianis. In hoc libro, Tertullianus disputat cum gentibus non-Christianis, ut ostendat veritatem fidei Christianae. Liber I continet septem capitula, in quibus Tertullianus agit de falsis deis gentium, de idololatria, de philosophia et de veritate. Tertullianus utitur argumentis rationabilibus et scripturis sacris, ut convincat gentes de errore suorum cultuum. Hoc opus est una ex primis apologiis Christianis et demonstrat sapientiam et eruditionem Tertulliani in controversiis religiosis.We are indeed said to be the ""third race"" of men. What, a dog-faced race?(16) Or broadly shadow-footed?(17) Or some subterranean(18) Antipodes? If you attach any meaning to these names, pray tell us what are the first and the second race, that so we may know something of this ""third."" Psammetichus thought that he had hit upon the ingenious discovery of the primeval man. He is said to have removed certain new-born infants from all human intercourse, and to have entrusted them to a nurse, whom he had previously deprived of her tongue, in order that, being completely exiled from all sound of the human voice, they might form their speech without hearing it; and thus, deriving it from themselves alone, might indicate what that first nation was whose speech was dictated by nature.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.