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quarto, at the note page 30; Hist.

de Huns, 2 vols.
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Then, retorting the pretensions of the Christians against themselves: "Prove to us," said the Lama, "that you are not Samaneans degenerated, and that the man you make the author of your sect is not Fot himself disguised.

Prove to us by historical facts that he even existed at the epoch you pretend; for, it being destitute of authentic testimony,* we absolutely deny it; and we maintain that your very gospels are only the books of some Mithriacs of Persia, and the Essenians of Syria, who were a branch of reformed Samaneans."** * There are absolutely no other monuments of the existence of Jesus Christ as a human being, than a passage in Josephus (Antiq.Jud.lib.18, c.3,) a single phrase in Tacitus (Annal.lib.15, c.

44), and the Gospels.