NOTE.


The present work is largely, though not entirely, an abridgement of my
_Studies of Arianism_.

The Conversion of the Goths, which gives the best side of Arianism, has
been omitted as belonging more properly to another volume of the series.




THE ARIAN CONTROVERSY.

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CHAPTER I.

_THE BEGINNINGS OF ARIANISM_.


Arianism is extinct only in the sense that it has long ceased to furnish
party names. It sprang from permanent tendencies of human nature, and
raised questions whose interest can never perish. As long as the
Agnostic and the Evolutionist are with us, the old battlefields of
Athanasius will not be left to silence. Moreover, no writer more
directly joins the new world of Teutonic Christianity with the old of