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Letters from Palmyra, by Lucius Marlius Piso
Letters from Palmyra by Lucius Marlius Piso Author:William Ware, Lucius M. Piso General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1838 Original Publisher: s.n. Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select fro... more »m more than a million books for free. Excerpt: LETTER VIII. The words of that christian recluse, my Curtius, still ring in my ear. I know not how it is, but there is a strange power in all that I have heard from any of that sect. You remember how I was struck by the manner, the countenance, and, above all, by the sentiments of Probus, the Christian, whom I encountered on his way to Carthage. A still stronger feeling possesses me, when I hear the same things from the lips of Julia. It seems as if she herself, and the religion she discourses of, must proceed from the same author. She is certainly a divine work. And there is such an alliance between her and those truths, that I am ready almost to believe that for this reason alone they must have that very divine origin which is claimed for them. Is there anything in our Roman superstitions, or philosophy even, that is at all kindred to the spirit of a perfect woman ? -- anything suited to her nature ? Has it ever seemed as if women were in any respect the care of the gods? In this, Christianity differs from all former religions and philosophies. It is feminine. I do not mean by that, weak and effeminate. But in its gentleness, in the suavity of its tone, in the humanity of its doctrines, in the deep love it breathes toward all of human kind, iu the high rank it assigns to the virtues which are peculiarly those of woman, in these things and many others, it is throughout for them as well as for us -- almost more for them than for us. In this feature of it, so strange and new, I see marks of a wisdom beyond that of any human fabricator. A human inventor could scarcely have conc...« less