Excerpt from Tertullian: On the Testimony of the Soul and on the "Prescription" Of Heretics The Puritan mind and spirit were never more effectively illustrated and expressed than by our North African author. He saw in the develop ment of pagan thought and religion nothing but a pernicious falsification and obscuring of the Divine Light and Truth: in the pagan mysteries nothing but the devil's anticipation or imitation of the Christian Sacraments (chap. The narrowness of view which regarded all pre Christian endeavour as the result of the rival effort of God's opponent to enslave the human intellect. 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.