book 2: 29# Thoughts - 思考者
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CHAP. 29.--AN EXHORTATION TO THE ROMANS
TO RENOUNCE PAGANISM.
This, rather, is the religion worthy of your desires, O
admirable Roman race,--the progeny of your Scaevolas and
Scipios, of Regulus, and of
Fabricius. This rather covet, this distinguish from that
foul vanity and crafty malice of the devils. If there is in
your nature any eminent virtue, only by
true piety is it purged and perfected, while by impiety it
is wrecked and punished. Choose now what you will pursue,
that your praise may be
TO RENOUNCE PAGANISM.
This, rather, is the religion worthy of your desires, O
admirable Roman race,--the progeny of your Scaevolas and
Scipios, of Regulus, and of
Fabricius. This rather covet, this distinguish from that
foul vanity and crafty malice of the devils. If there is in
your nature any eminent virtue, only by
true piety is it purged and perfected, while by impiety it
is wrecked and punished. Choose now what you will pursue,
that your praise may be