Excerpt from Jerusalem, the City of Herod and SaladinThere is nothing sacred about the actors in this long story we have to tell, and we have not thought it necessary to endeavour to invest them, as is generally done by those who write on Jerusalem, with an appear ance of sanctity because they fought for the City of Sacred Memories, or because they bore the Cross upon their shoulders. We have, on the other hand, endea vowed to show them as they were - men and women actuated by mixed motives, sometimes base, sometimes noble, sometimes interested, sometimes pure and lofty, but always men and women, never saints. The Chris tians in the East were as the' Christians in the West, certainly never better, more often worse. If we have succeeded in making a plain tale, divested of its customary pseudo-religious trappings, interesting and useful, our design is accomplished.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.