The book Essays in Modern Theology And Related Subjects was written by author Harry Norman Gardiner, Charles Ripley Gillett Here you can read free online of Essays in Modern Theology And Related Subjects book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Essays in Modern Theology And Related Subjects a good or bad book?
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Lactantius has a short and easy method with such " marvellous fancies," and he triumphandy flings down his challenge, " Is there anyone so senseless as to believe that there are men whose footsteps are higher than their heads? . . . that the crops and trees grow downwards? that the rains and snow and haU fall upwards to the earth?" § About twelve hundred years later another good churchman, a Spanish mission- ary in Peru, gently corrected his derisive predecessors, on the ground of personal know...ledge of the antipodes. He had actually been there. || Lactantius attributes the fictitious belief in antipodes to an- * Lactantius: Div, inHU. iii, 24. t Epist moral, xx, 6 (122), init. (ed. C. R. Fickert, Leips. 1842). The quotation is from Vergirs Gearg, i, 250 f. Naaqxie vbi primus equis Oriens adflauU anhdis, lUis sera rubens accendU lumina Vesper. t Vos etiam, dicUis esse e regiane nobis, e corUraria parte terrce, qui aduersis uestigvis stent contra nostra uestigia, quos anUpodas uocaHs, Academicorum prtorum, ii, 123, ed.
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