Good Books

Origin of Christianity--Christ--Charity--
Equality--Poverty and humility--The kingdom of God.
FIRST CENTURIES OF THE CHURCH. Disciples and apostles--The church--
Sacred books--Persecutions--Martyrs--Catacombs.
THE MONKS OF THE THIRD CENTURY. Solitaries--Asceticism--Cenobites.

CHAPTER XXVII
THE LATER EMPIRE. The revolutions of the third century--Military
anarchy--Worship of Mithra--Taurobolia--Confusion of religions.
REGIME OF THE LATER EMPIRE. Reforms of Diocletian and Constantine--
Constantinople--The palace--The officials--Society of the later
empire.
CHURCH AND STATE. Triumph of Christianity--Organization of the
church--Councils--Heretics--Paganism--Theodosius.


CHAPTER I
THE ORIGINS OF CIVILIZATION
PREHISTORIC ARCHAEOLOGY

=Prehistoric Remains.=--One often finds buried in the earth, weapons,
implements, human skeletons, debris of every kind left by men of whom
we have no direct knowledge. These are dug up by the thousand in all
the provinces of France, in Switzerland, in England, in all Europe;
they are found even in Asia and Africa.


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