part full of interest, at the same time that it is full of great historical value. “It is a far more comprehensive survey of the whole religious philosophy of antiquity than had been yet displayed in any Christian work.”1 In his zeal for the destruction of paganism he pursues it even to its last refuges; he unveils its miseries, its contradictions, its shameful mysteries; he strips it of the brilliant mantle with which the poets have toned it down, and exposes it naked to the derision of the world,