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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: be performed as that of Strauss. The "Life of Jesus," published
by Strauss when only twenty-six years of age, is one of the
monumental works of the nineteenth century, worthy to rank, as a
historical effort, along with such books as Niebuhr's "History of
Rome," Wolf's "Prolegomena," or Bentley's "Dissertations on
Phalaris." It instantly superseded and rendered antiquated
everything which had preceded it; nor has any work on early
Christianity been written in Germany for the past thirty years
which has not been dominated by the recollection of that
marvellous book. Nevertheless, the labours of another generation
of scholars have carried our knowledge of the New Testament
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