dwell. Their great work, that by which they have an influence upon us at this day, was the foundation of mystical theology, Christianity appeared upon earth as an essentially social religion. It was planted in the world, says one of its earliest writers, as the soul is in the body, and if it vivified the dead mass, that body in its turn seemed a condition of its operation. “Christians are neither different from other men in country, nor in language, nor in manners. They have no cities to themselves,