Note 47:1 — Chapter III · PREPARATION OF THE CIVILISED WORLD FOR THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH
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Tacitus felt a common humanity when he wrote: "Homo sum; humani nihil a me alienum puto." Cicero and Virgil expressed like ideas. In the Middle Ages it was even said that Virgil in the Fourth Eclogue prophesied the advent of Jesus. See Princeton Rev., Sept. 1879, 403 ff.