CHAPTER III

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THE ASCENSION OF CHRIST, AND ITS LESSONS.

ACTS i. 9.

Position of Doctrine of Ascension in Epistles--And in Apostolic Teaching--Curious and Foolish Questions about it--_The Unseen Universe_--Fitness of the Doctrine--And Necessity if the Church was to rise out of Judaism into Christianity--Illustrations, London and the Papacy--Rénan's Theory--The Ascension Glorified Human Nature--Paganism Degraded It--Gladiatorial Shows and Story of the Monk Telemachus--Tacitus and Slavery--Cato the Censor and the Treatment of Slaves--The Ascension and Darwinism 43-60

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