Excerpt from The Cultivation of the Arts and Sciences, Maintained to Be Favourable to Virtue and Happiness: To Which Is Added, a Translation of the Celebrated Prize Essay of Jean Jacques Rousseau, Wherein He Advances an Opposite Sentiment Greece, when Christ and his disciples laid the foundationsof our divine religion, and must have received re'probation, if contrarv to divine command. May we not safely then infer that they are in themselves innocent, nay valuable as industrious employnients, and eriminal only When they be come objects of Worship, or withdraw the affections from. 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.