Excerpt from Hamilton Literary Monthly, Vol. 29: October, 1894 He is singularly obscure in his references to Christianity; in fact it is a matter for discussion whether he became at all familiar with the new faith. At any rate either thro ignorance or indifference he avoids anything more than a distant illusion to it. However, he often advanced senti ments of Christian tendency, and for this reason has been termed an unconscious preacher of Christianity. Plutarch acknowledged a Supreme Being but believed in the exist ence of dependent deities of lesser importance which he called daemons. His belief in the immortality of the soul was firm. There is a fervid reverence for the past in this writers' works. He loves to picture the heroic and enduring. The Christian belief did not enlist his sympathy possibly because of its novelty and vagueness. It was at variance with all preceding speculative philosophy. The heroes of the classics, not the martyrs of the new religion, are the basis of anecdote and example. 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.