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Excerpt from An Epitome of Paley's Evidences of Christianity: Containing the Substance of the Arguments Comprised in That Work, in the Catechetical Form Q. How would the Christian religion probably be received in the Roman world, where Gibbon says, the modes of worship were considered by the people as all equally true, by the philosopher as all equally false, and by the magistrate as all equally useful? A. It would receive no protection from the people, whose public religion it would entirely subvert, none from the philosopher, who would regard it as a false and troublesome innovation, none from the magistrate, satisfied with the utility of the existing mode. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.