Excerpt from The Early Years of Christianity Christianity, first in the family, and afterwards in the institutions and customs of social life. It is a subject of peculiar interest, especially since the appearance in the last few years of several important works on the social conditions of ancient Rome, to determine what share is due to Stoicism in the modification and human isation of Roman law, and how far its renovation is to be traced to the influence of Christianity. 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.