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Title: Callista
Author: John Henry Cardinal Newman
Release Date: December 13, 2009 [Ebook #30664]
Language: English
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CALLISTA
A TALE OF THE THIRD CENTURY
CALLISTA
A TALE OF THE THIRD CENTURY
BY
JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN
"Love thy God, and love Him only,
And thy breast will ne'er be lonely.
In that One Great Spirit meet
All things mighty, grave, and sweet.
Vainly strives the soul to mingle
With a being of our kind;
Vainly hearts with hearts are twined:
For the deepest still is single.
An impalpable resistance
Holds like natures still at distance.
Mortal: love that Holy One,
Or dwell for aye alone."
DE VERE
_NEW IMPRESSION_
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
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NEW YORK AND BOMBAY
1904
_All rights reserved_
_To_
_HENRY WILLIAM WILBERFORCE._
_To you alone, who have known me so long, and who love me so well, could I
venture to offer a trifle like this. But you will recognise the author in
his work, and take pleasure in the recognition._
_J. H. N._
ADVERTISEMENT.
It is hardly necessary to say that the following Tale is a simple fiction
from beginning to end. It has little in it of actual history, and not much
claim to antiquarian research; yet it has required more reading than may
appear at first sight.
It is an attempt to imagine and express, from a Catholic point of view,
the feelings and mutual relations of Christians and heathens at the period
to which it belongs, and it has been undertaken as the ne
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