Essays (Classic Reprint)

Essays (Classic Reprint)

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Hen Casaubon, on his first visit to Paris, was shown over the great hall of the Sorbonne, he was told by his guide This is where the theologians have disputed for five hundred years.' Indeed!' was the reply; 'and pray what have they settled?' Something like this is the feeling of every re?ective mind on a review of the last three centuries of the history of Europe. We see the most civilized part of mankind, the nations of the West, 'the root and crown of things, ' devoting their best energies, and lavishing all their resources, mental and material, upon a doctrinal quarrel. Nor at the 'end of a three hundred years' experience are we at all wiser. Among our educated classes, at least, far the larger number still think that there exist no questions of more momentous interest for themselves and the world at large than those tenets by which the Protestant Churches are separated from the Church of Rome.

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ISBN: 9781330307960
Publisher: Fb&c Ltd
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Number of pages: 464
Weight: 617g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 24mm