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two tendencies of thought which have found expression among [020]
us in these words? Was St. Paul right when he declared that the
old civilised nations had sought after the God of Christianity,“if
haply they might feel after Him and find Him,”or is there an
impassable gulf between the religious conceptions of paganism
and those of Christian Europe? Such are some of the questions
to whose solution I trust that the facts I have to bring before you
may contribute, in however humble a degree.
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