Excerpt from The Catholic World, Vol. 40: A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science; October, 1884, to March, 1885 Francois lenormant, the distinguished son of a distin guished father, is professor of archaeology at the National Library of France. He stands eminent in this science, as in its associate science of philology. Like his father also, he is a faith ful child of the church. I am a Christian, he says; and just now, when my belief may be a cause for reprobatio'n, I am more than ever desirous to proclaim it emphatically. And again I believe firmly in the inspiration of the Sacred Books, and I subscribe with absolute submission to the doctrinal decisions of the church in this respect. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.