Excerpt from The Man of Galilee: A New Enquiry If the book helps the reader to answer that first question negatively, and the sec ond question affirmatively, the author has accomplished his purpose without st0p ping on the way to deal with many of the real merits, and much of the ground less pretension, of the critics of those Four Biographies. In other words, he assumes the truthfulness of the Four Wit nesses as they appear to-day upon the witness stand, as they testify in the cur rent versions of the New Testament, and he makes that assumption, not in defiance or ignorance of Criticism, but in order to show that the testimony of those wit nesses, as it stands, presents a state of facts which that Criticism cannot dis credit, because that state of facts con sists of. 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.