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— Gaston Bachelard"We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost."
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Some writers may toy with the fancy of a ‘Christ-myth,’ but they do not do so on the ground of historical evidence. The historicity of Christ is as axiomatic for an unbiased historian as the historicity of Julius Caesar. It is not historians who propagate the ‘Christ-myth’ theories.
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