ABSTRACT

There is one motive which above all others has influenced my determination. It struck me that a faithful picture of the wickedness and incongruities of 'polytheism and idolatry would by its very ugliness help greatly to set off the beauties and perfections of Christianity. It was thus that the Lacedaemonians placed drunken slaves in the sight of their children in order to inspire the latter with a horror of intemperance.