Note 17 — ON THE MEANING OF THE WORD RELIGION; HOW, AND FOR WHAT PURPOSE, SO MANY RELIGIONS HAVE BEEN INTRODUCED INTO THE WORLD.
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This was the opinion of Pope Leo X. as appears from an expression of his, which, considering that it was made use of at a time when the philosophical spirit of inquiry had made little progress, was remarkably bold. “It has been well known in all ages,” he observed to Cardinal Beinbo, “how much this fable of Jesus Christ has been profitable to us and ours.” Quantum nobis nostrisque sa de Christo fabula profuerit, satis est omnibus saeculis notum. ↑