[52]. The savagery of a great city is in some aspects more awful than that of Africa.
[53]. T. W. Rhys Davids, Hibbert Lectures, p. 10.
[54]. Tylor, Primitive Culture, vol. i. p. 380.
[55]. Müller, Introduction to the Science of Religion, p. 41; Chips from a German Workshop, vol. ii. p. 254.
[56]. Fairbairn, Studies in Religion and Philosophy, p. 13.
[57]. Baring Gould, Origin and Development of Religious Belief, vol. i. p. 109.
[58]. “Nations,” says Professor Goldwin Smith, “redeem each other. They preserve for each other principles, truths, and hopes, and aspirations which, committed to the keeping of one, might become extinct for ever. They thus not only raise each other again when fallen, but they prevent each other from falling.”—Lectures on the Study of History, delivered in Oxford 1859-61, p. 71.
[59]. Celsus, quoting our Lord’s saying, Matt. xix. 24, and the exhortation to forgive our enemies, Matt. v. 43, 45, alleged they were transferred and coarsely perverted from Plato, de Legibus, and Crito.—Origen, contra Celsum, Book vi. chaps. 15, 16, and Book vii. chap. 61.
[60]. Enarr. in Psalm. cxl. 6. Clement of Alexandria regarded Greek philosophy as a προπαιδεία or preparatory discipline for the reception of Christian truth, Strom. vi. chap. 8, and as a step to something higher, ὑποβάθραν οὖσαν τῆς κατὰ Χριστὸν φιλοσοφίας, Strom. vi. chap. 17.
[61]. Trench, Hulsean Lectures for 1846, p. 153.