whether Euclid was a good man or whether he even existed, what does matter is the body of truth that he happened to be instrumental in mediating to the world; but his person is really irrelevant and incidental. Much the same attitude is adopted toward a merely historical approach to Christianity. Strange as this attitude may seem to be it has taken great effect upon the modern theological discussion, and stranger still at a time when the historical sense has been greatly quickened. Thus no age in