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Between Heathenism and Christianity
3Between Heathenism and Christianity:
Being a Translation of Seneca’s De Providentia, and Plutarch’s
De Sera Numinis Vindicta, together with Notes, Additional
Extracts from these writers and Two
Essays on Graeco-Roman Life in the
First Century after Christ.
BY
CHARLES W. SUPER, Ph. D., LL. D.,
Ex-President of the Ohio University, and Professor of Greek, ibidem; translator
of Weil’s Order of Words, and author of a
History of the German Language.
“He who distrusts the light of reason will be the first to follow a moreluminous guide; and if with an ardent love for truth he has sought her invain through the ways of this life, he will but turn with the more hope tothat better world where all is simple, true, and everlasting: for there is noparallax at the zenith;  it is only near our troubled horizon that objects deceiveus into vague and erroneous calculations.”
FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY
Chicago, New York, Toronto
1899
4Copyrighted 1899, by Fleming H. Revell Company
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PREFACE.
It is admitted by students of history of every shadeof belief that the origin of Christianity and its rapidspread over the ancient world is the most remarkablefact in the recorded annals of the human race. Whenwe remember that it was, from the first, more or lessclosely identified with the despised religion of thedespised Jews; that largely for this reason it had tomake its way against a united front, presented by thelearned and intelligent in the whole gentile world,while the Jews themselves almost unanimously repudiatedit; that the most efficiently organizedgovernment that had existed until then, was indifferentor hostile; that it set before the heathenworld a condition of society in which all currenteconomic ideas were transformed, and that it demandeda complete renunciation of its time-honoredcreeds, we may well ask in amazement, “How camethese things to pass?”
Second in order among the great facts of ancienthistory is the growth of the Roman Empire. Herewe see a people at first occupying a few square milesof territory, compelled for nearly fifteen generationsto exert themselves to the utmost to keep their enemiesat bay, suddenly bursting the barriers that confinedthem and in less than half this time bringing undertheir scepter almost the whole of the then known6world. Rome’s conquests have been exceeded inrapidity, but they have never been equalled in permanence.
The triumphs of Christianity and those of Romanarms stand in a certain relation to each other, notwithstandingthe fact that the latter were gained withmaterial, the former with spiritual, weapons. Whenthe conquests of the one were ended, the other began.When material forces had spent themselves, menbegan to turn, reluctantly indeed, to sp                        
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