The Churchs Task Under the Roman Empire Four Lectures With Preface Notes And
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Let us turn from these middle-class folk, and see how it was among the educated classes. In the last days of the Republic we find Lucretius, one of the few poets of atheism. He tells in his stately hexameters the story of Iphigenia at Aulis, and bids us observe how belief in the gods led a father to steep his hands in the blood of his own daughter. ' Tan turn religio potuit suadere malorum V Human life begins in the throes of birth, and ends in the 1 It is to be observed that Lucretius is rouse...d to this fierce protest by the fables of the Greek mythology. Nobody felt bound to believe or to defend these stories. Educated people either rejected or allegorized them. In the East, wherever people could not speak Greek, they were unknown (see the Clementine Homilies^ iv. 19). Where the grammar school exerted its influence they would be familiar, so far as they are contained in the recognized classic authors, and their power for moral corruption must have been considerable (see on this point, Aug.
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