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Excerpt from The Eve of Christianity: A Glance at the State of the World About the Time of Augustus There are some periods of history about which we can never hear enough. We are always curious to see fresh portraits of the actors, to read their letters, to think ourselves into their characters, to guess why they acted thus at one moment or stood with folded hands at another. Or, again, we try to understand their world, their circumstances, the people among whom they were placed. The spacious times of great Elizabeth, the literary age of Anne, the tumultuous years of the first French Revolution, are the subjects of such curiosity but above them all tower in interest those centuries which saw the birth and childhood of Christianity. Much of the information. 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.