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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour by Friedrich Max Mueller This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at http://www.gutenberg.org/license Title: The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour Author: Friedrich Max Mueller Release Date: January 15, 2008 [Ebook #24315] Language: English Character set encoding: US-ASCII ***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
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