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Title: The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour

Author: Friedrich Max Mueller

Release Date: January 15, 2008 [Ebook #24315]

Language: English

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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SILESIAN HORSEHERD - QUESTIONS OF THE HOUR***

*The Silesian Horseherd*

*(Das Pferdebuerla)*

Questions of the Hour Answered By

*Friedrich Max Mueller*

Translated From The German

By Oscar A. Fechter

With A Forward

By J. Estlin Carpenter, M.A.

Longmans, Green, and Co.

39 Paternoster Row, London

New York and Bombay

*1903*

CONTENTS

Preface
Chapter I.
Chapter II.
Chapter III.
Chapter IV.
Chapter V.
Chapter VI.
Footnotes

PREFACE

The story of this volume is soon told. In July, 1895, Professor Max Mueller
contributed to the _Deutsche Rundschau_ an essay on the lost treatise
against Christianity by the philosopher Celsus, known to us through the
reply of Origen of Alexandria. This essay, entitled "The 'True History'(1)
of Celsus," contained an exposition of the doctrine of the Logos and its
place in Christian teaching, with reference also to its applications in
our modern thought. Among the comments upon it which in due time found
their way to Oxford, was a vigorous, if familiar, letter (dated February,
1896) from a German emigrant to the United States, residing in
Pennsylvania, who signed himself by the unusual name of the _Pferdebuerla_,
or "Horseherd."(2) His criticisms served as a fair sample of others; and
his letter was published with a reply from Professor Max Mueller in the
_Rundschau_ of November, 1896. More letters poured in upon the unwearied
scholar who had thus set aside precious time out of his last years to
answer his unknown correspo