Excerpt from The Christ: A Critical Review and Analysis of the Evidences of His Existence
It may be conceded as possible, and even prob able, that a religious enthusiast of Galilee, named Jesus, was the germ of this mythical Jesus Christ. But this is an assumption rather than a demonstra ted fact. Certain it is, this person, if he existed, was not a realization of the Perfect Man, as his admirers claim. There are passages in the Gospels which ascribe to him a lofty and noble character, but these, for the most part, betray too well their Pagan origin. The dedication of temples to him and the worship of him by those who deny his di vinity is as irrational as it will prove ephemeral. One of the most philosophic and one of the most far seeing minds of Germany, Dr. Edward von Hart mann, says.
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