Excerpt from Life of Christ

The words contested by none are perhaps stronger than one would nowadays care to use, but the matter is one which cannot be fitly dis cussed in a short introduction like the present. Those who are curious about it will find it ex haustively treated by Dr. M. J. Pohl, in an essay 1 published in 1895, and at pages 385 to 397 of his edition of the text.

I shall here take the question of authorship for granted, and shall confine myself to setting out a few facts about Thomas 31 Kempis which may possibly be of interest to those using a book so much more subjective in its form than the Imi tation and to a brief account of former trans lations of it into English.

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