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RENAN'S "LES AP?TRES"[14]
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Histoire des Origines du Christianisme. Livre II.—Les Ap?tres.
Par2 Ernest Renan. Saturday Review, 14th July 1866.
In his recent volume, Les Ap?tres, M. Renan has undertaken two tasks of very unequal difficulty. He accounts for the origin of the Christian1 belief and religion, and he writes the history of its first propagation. These are very different things, and to do one of them is by no means to do the other. M. Renan's historical sketch3 of the first steps of the Christian movement is, whatever we may think of its completeness and soundness, a survey of characters and facts, based on our ordinary experience of the ways in which men act and are influenced. Of course it opens questions and provokes dissent4 at every turn; but, after all, the history of a religion once introduced into the world is the history of the men who give it shape and preach it, who accept or oppose it. The spread and development of all religions have certain broad features in common, which admit of philosophical5 treatment simply as phenomena6, and receive light from being compared with parallel examples of the same kind; and whether a man's historical estimate is right, and his picture accurate and true, depends on his knowledge of the facts, and his power to understand them and to make them understood. No one can dispute M. Renan's qualifications for being the historian of a religious movement. The study of religion as a phenomenon of human nature and activity has paramount7 attractions for him. His interest in it has furnished him with ample and varied8 materials for comparison and generalisation. He is a scholar and a man of learning, quick and wide in his sympathies, and he commands attention by the singular charm of his
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delusion
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deception
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