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which was the simple, unalloyed teaching of 

 Jesus of Nazareth — a very different thing 

 from the Christianity triumphant which was 

 exemplified in imperial Rome — " a compro- 

 mise with pagan power and sacerdotalism, 

 a hybrid product which the Xazarene would 

 never have recognized as the child of his 

 simple enthusiasm for righteousness, his de- 

 votion and self-abnegation, his suffering and 

 agony, his poverty and supreme sacrifice." 

 This religion of the " brotherhood of man," 

 and with it the trustful acceptance of the 

 beneficence of the order of Nature, is the 

 rational fulfillment of Jesus's doctrine of 

 the " fatherhood of God." 



First Lessons in Zoolort. By A. S. Pack- 

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In preparing this manual, the author has 

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 cipal classes of the animal kingdom, so that 

 the visitor may go into the main collection 

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 two other text-books in zoology in that it 

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 it alone, is insisted upon ; and the pupil is 

 exhorted to go out, look at the animals where 

 they live, and learn how they live. 



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