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Excerpt from The Gadarene: Or, Spirits in Prison
The common consciousness of the race admits a standard Of moral rectitude. This is the transcendent law of humanity. Protagoras was a cunning sophist; Socrates, a philosopher. Man is the measure Of all things, said Protagoras; and, as men differ, there can be no absolute truth. Man is the measure Of all things, replied Socrates; but descend deeper into his personality, and you will find that underneath all varieties there is a ground of steady Math. Men differ, but men also agree: they differ as to what is fleeting; they agree as to what is eternal. Difference is the region of Opinion; Agreement is the region of Truth: let us endeavor to penetrate that region. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.