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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: of this sort is not to be measured by its rhetorical excellence,
or by its adaptation to the literary tastes of an uncritical and
uninstructed public, but rather by the amount of critical
sagacity which it brings to bear upon the elucidation of the many
difficult and disputed points in the subject of which it treats.
Measured by this standard, "The Jesus of History" must rank very
high indeed. To say that it throws more light upon the career of
Jesus than any work which has ever before been written in English
would be very inadequate praise, since the English language has
been singularly deficient in this branch of historical
literature. We shall convey a more just idea of its merits if we
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