Sophron and Neophilus, or The School of Wisdom

our author himself intends. In his preface, he promises complete, decisive conviction regarding the groundlessness of the entire Christian religion, and for that reason asks all those who owe their peace of mind and the impulses for their duties to that religion to leave his little book on Horus unread, for their own sake. After such an introduction, one should expect something different than such hypotheses, which, even if they really possessed much probability, are out of place where the goal is certainty and conviction. Furthermore, as you may know, the aforementioned explanation—or rather, distortion—of the resurrection story does not even have the smallest of all merits: the merit of novelty, as it has already been praised as an important discovery by the late Johann Christoph Wilhelm Damm to the world.

Neoph. Here I must ask your permission to make a reminder.

Soph. You know that you are always