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A Virgin is his mother, but his sire

The power of the Most High. He shall ascend
The throne hereditary, and bound his reign

With earth's wide bounds, his glory with the heavens'

MILTON'S Paradise Lost, Book xii

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WORKS REFERRED TO.

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Arnold (Mr. John Mulheisen), Koran and Bible.

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1876.

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Hallam, History of the Middle Ages.

Hellwald (Von), England and Russia in Central Asia.

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Opinion.

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M'Gahan (Major), Campaigning on the Oxus.

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Milman (Dean), History of Christianity.

Newman (Dr.), Development of Christianity and Grammar of

Assent.

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Prescott, Conquest of Peru.

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THE POLITICAL PROGRESS

OF

CHRISTIANITY.

In the history of the ancient world, the three most remarkable nations-at least the best known to modern Europeans-are the Jews, the Greeks, and the Romans. Dr. Newman,1 comparing these three great nations of antiquity, observes,

The Jews are one of the few Oriental nations who are known in history as a people of progress, and their line is progress in religion. In that, their own line, they stand by themselves among all the populations—not only of the East, but of the West. Their country may be called the classical home of

1 'Grammar of Assent,' p. 426.

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