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as history, and discoursed of in as dogmatic a tone as the tale 

 of Agincourt or the history of the Norman Conquest. 



But ;ill this is now changed. The last century has seen the 

 growth of scientific criticism to its full strength. The whole 

 world of history has been revolutionised and the mythology 

 which embarrassed earnest Christians has vanished as an evil 

 mist, the lifting of which has only more fully revealed tin- 

 lineaments of infallible Truth. No longer in contact with iart 

 of any kind, Faith stands now and for ever proudly inaccessible 

 to the attacks of the infidel. 



So far the apologist of the future. Why not ? 

 Cantabit vacuus. 



