Note 26 — ALFRED AS A WRITER
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It is a noted character of this book that while it contains much that is acceptable to the Christian spirit and nothing that is repugnant to it, there is not a word in it which might not have been written by a pagan of the sixth century who had inherited the influences of centuries of Christianity. Those who desire to know more about Boethius, and the various ancient translations of his last work, and his influence upon mediæval thought, and the controversies of which he has been the occasion, should consult Boethius, An Essay, by Hugh Fraser Stewart, M.A.; Blackwood and Son, 1891.