Publisher's Synopsis
Perhaps all religions, unless the aming onset of Mohammedanism be an exception, have dawned imperceptibly upon the world. A little while ago and the thing was not; and then suddenly it has been found in existence, and already in a state of di usion. People have begun to hear of the new belief rst here and then there. It is interesting, for example, to trace how Christianity dri ed into the consciousness of the Roman world.
