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# Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VI/Arnobius/Adversus Gentes/Book VII/Chapter L

50. What shall we say then? Was Hannibal, that famous Carthaginian, an enemy strong and powerful, before whom the fortunes of Rome trembled in doubt and uncertainty, and its greatness shook—was he driven from Italy by a stone? was he subdued by a stone? was he made fearful, and timid, and unlike himself by a stone? And with regard to Rome’s again springing to the height of power and royal supremacy, was nothing done by wisdom, nothing by the strength of men; and, in returning to its former eminence, was no assistance given by so many and so great leaders by their military skill, or by their acquaintance with affairs? Did the stone give strength to some, feebleness to others? Did it hurl these down from success, raise the fortunes of others which seemed hopelessly overthrown? And what man will believe that a stone taken from the earth, having no feeling, of sooty colour and dark body, was the mother of the gods? or who, again, would listen to this,—for this is the only alternative,—that the power of any deity dwelt in pieces of flint, within its mass, and hidden in its veins? And how was the victory procured if there was no deity in the Pessinuntine stone? We may say, by the zeal and valour of the soldiers, by practice, time, wisdom, reason; we may say, by fate also, and the alternating fickleness of fortune. But if the state of affairs was improved, and success and victory were regained, by the stone’s assistance, where was the Phrygian mother at the time when the commonwealth was bowed down by the slaughter of so many and so great armies, and was in danger of utter ruin? Why did she not thrust herself before the threatening, the strong enemy? Why did she not crush and repel assaults so terrible before these awful blows fell, by which all the blood was shed, and the life even failed, the vitals being almost exhausted? She had not been brought yet, says my opponent, nor asked to show favour. Be it so; but a kind helper never requires to be asked, always offering assistance of his own accord. She was not able, you say, to expel the enemy and put him to flight, while still separated from Italy by much sea and land. But to a deity, if really one, nothing whatever is remote, to whom the earth is a point, and by whose nod all things have been established.

## Footnotes

* ↑ 47 in Orelli.
* ↑ Lit., “did a stone drive,” etc.
* ↑ Lit. “moved by.”
* ↑ So the ms. and edd.; but, on account of the unnecessary repetition, Ursinus proposed to delete atri. Unger (Anal. Propert., p. 87) has suggested very happily arti—“of confined, i.e., small body.’”
* ↑ Vim, suggested by Orelli, and adopted by Hild. and Oehler.
* ↑ Lit., “subjected to.”
* ↑ So Hild. and Oehler, reading moli for the unintelligible ms. more.
* ↑ Lit., “so great assaults of war.”
* ↑ So Oehler, adding -o to the ms. est. The word immediately preceding is in the ms. pavorem—“panic,” which is of course utterly out of place, and is therefore corrected, as above, f- in all edd., except 1st, Ursinus, and Hild.
* ↑ So—ab Italia—Oehler has admirably emended the ms. habitabilia.
* ↑ Lit., “if he is.”
# Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VI/Arnobius/Adversus Gentes/Book VII
## Contents

* Chapter I
* Chapter II
* Chapter III
* Chapter IV
* Chapter V
* Chapter VI
* Chapter VII
* Chapter VIII
* Chapter IX
* Chapter X
* Chapter XI
* Chapter XII
* Chapter XIII
* Chapter XIV
* Chapter XV
* Chapter XVI
* Chapter XVII
* Chapter XVIII
* Chapter XIX
* Chapter XX
* Chapter XXI
* Chapter XXII
* Chapter XXIII
* Chapter XXIV
* Chapter XXV
* Chapter XXVI
* Chapter XXVII
* Chapter XXVIII
* Chapter XXIX
* Chapter XXX
* Chapter XXXI
* Chapter XXXII
* Chapter XXXIII
* Chapter XXXIV
* Chapter XXXV
* Chapter XXXVI
* Chapter XXXVII
* Chapter XXXVIII
* Chapter XXXIX
* Chapter XL
* Chapter XLI
* Chapter XLII
* Chapter XLIII
* Chapter XLIV
* Chapter XLV
* Chapter XLVI
* Chapter XLVII
* Chapter XLVIII
* Chapter XLIX
* Chapter L
* Chapter LI
# Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VI/Arnobius/Adversus Gentes/Book VII/Chapter I

Book VII.
1. Since it has been sufficiently shown, as far as there has been opportunity, how vain it is to form images, the course of our argument requires that we should next speak as briefly as possible, and without any periphrasis, about sacrifices, about the slaughter and immolation of victims, about pure wine, about incense, and about all the other things which are provided on such occasions. For with respect to this you have been in the habit of exciting against us the most violent ill-will, of calling us atheists, and inflicting upon us the punishment of death, even by savagely tearing us to pieces with wild beasts, on the ground that we pay very little respect to the gods; which, indeed, we admit that we do, not from contempt or scorn of the divine, but because we think that such powers require nothing of the kind, and are not possessed by desires for such things.
What, then, some one will say, do you think that no sacrifices at all should be offered? To answer you not with our own, but with your Varro’s opinion—none. Why so? Because, he says, the true gods neither wish nor demand these; while those which are made of copper, earthenware, gypsum, or marble, care much less for these things, for they have no feeling; and you are not blamed if you do not offer them, nor do you win favour if you do. No sounder opinion can be found, none truer, and one which any one may adopt, although he may be stupid and very hard to convince. For who is so obtuse as either to slay victims in sacrifice to those who have no sense, or to think that they should be given to those who are removed far from them in their nature and blessed state?

## Footnotes

* ↑ Lit., “in that part of years.”
* ↑ Lit., “attribute least.”
* ↑ Lit., “divine spurning.”
* ↑ [When good old Dutch Boyens came to the pontificate as Hadrian VI., he was accounted a “barbarian” because he so little appreciated the art-treasures in the Vatican, on which Leo X. had lavished so much money and so much devotion. His pious spirit seemed oppressed to see so many heathen images in the Vatican: sunt idola ethnicorum was all he could say of them,—a most creditable anecdote of such a man in such times. See p. 504, n. 6, supra.]
* ↑ [In the Edin. edition this is the opening sentence, but the editor remarks]: “By some accident the introduction to the seventh book has been tacked on as a last chapter to the sixth, where it is just as out of place as here it is in keeping.” [I have restored it to its place accordingly.]
* ↑ Lit., “those, moreover.”
* ↑ Lit., “nor is any blame contracted.”
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Becerra, Diego

Edition of 1900.
​BECERRA, Diego, Spanish navigator, d. in 1533. He was an officer in the army of Cortés, conqueror of Mexico. When the ship “Concepcion” was built at Tehuantepec by order of Cortés, Becerra was given command of her, and went, 30 Nov., 1533, to explore the coasts of the southern sea. A short time after he had begun the work his pilot treacherously assassinated him.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Beaurepaire-Rohan, Henry de

Edition of 1900.
​BEAUREPAIRE-ROHAN, Henry de (bo-re-pair-ro-on′), Brazilian traveller, b. in Piauhy, Brazil, about 1818. He explored Paraguay in 1845-'6, visited Bonpland at Borja, and published “Descripçâo de uma viagem de Cuyaba ao Rio de Janeiro” (Rio, 1846). He was promoted in 1850 to the rank of major of engineers, and charged by the government with the exploration of central Brazil, and has since published several works on the geography and history of parts of that empire.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Beck, James Burnie

Edition of 1900.
​BECK, James Burnie, U. S. senator, b. in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, 13 Feb., 1822; d. in Washington, D. C., 3 May, 1890. He received an academic education in his native country, and, with his parents, settled in Lexington, Ky., and was graduated at the law school of Transylvania university in that place in 1846. He then practised law in Lexington, and in 1866 was elected to congress, serving four successive terms, from 1867 till 1875. In May, 1876, he was appointed a member of the commission to define the Virginia and Maryland boundary, and in the same year was elected to the U. S. senate. He took his seat on 4 March, 1877, was re-elected in 1882 for the term ending in March, 1889, and was re-elected for a third term. During his congressional career Mr. Beck served on important committees, and was prominent in important debates. He was specially interested in questions relating to the tariff and the currency.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Bechler, John Christian

Edition of 1900.
​BECHLER, John Christian, Moravian bishop, b. on the island of Oesel, 7 Jan., 1784; d. in Herrnhut, Saxony, 18 April, 1857. He was educated at the Moravian college and theological seminary in Germany, came to the United States in 1806, and entered the boarding-school of Nazareth Hall, at Nazareth, Pa., as a tutor. In the following year the American Moravian theological seminary was founded, and he was appointed one of its first professors. Afterward he accepted the principalship of Nazareth Hall, and subsequently had charge of various churches in Pennsylvania and on Staten Island. He was consecrated to the episcopacy at Lititz, Pa., 17 May, 1835, and presided over the southern district. In the following year he went to Europe as a member of the general synod, and did not return, but proceeded to Russia, where he stood at the head of the Moravian establishment at Sarepta, and subsequently was the principal of a similar establishment at Zeist, in Holland. Bishop Bechler was endowed with rare musical talent, and composed various anthems and tunes, some of which are still in use.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Beck, Charles

Edition of 1900.
​BECK, Charles, educator, b. in Heidelberg, Germany, 19 Aug., 1798; d. in Cambridge, Mass., 19 March, 1866. After completing his theological studies at Berlin and Tübingen, he was employed for some time as tutor at the university of Basle, Switzerland; but his republican sentiments endangered his liberty, and he took refuge in the United States, arriving in New York in December, 1824. Soon afterward he became connected, as teacher, with the Round Hill school at Northampton, Mass., until, in 1830, he, in connection with two other teachers, established a school at Phillipstown, on the Hudson, opposite West Point. In 1832 Prof. Beck was elected to the chair of Latin language and literature at Cambridge, and, on his retirement from that professorship in 1850, he devoted himself to literary pursuits and classical studies. In 1863 he published “The Manuscripts of the Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter, described and collated.” He was for two years a representative of Cambridge in the state legislature. He was specially interested in the soldiers' fund, the sanitary commission, and the agencies for the care and education of the freedmen.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Beck, Paul

Edition of 1900.
​BECK, Paul, philanthropist, b. in Philadelphia about 1760; d. there, 22 Dec., 1844. His father emigrated from Nuremberg in 1752. The son acquired a large fortune in the wine-trade, and for several years filled the office of port warden of Philadelphia. He was one of the founders of the Philadelphia academy of fine arts, a benefactor of the deaf and dumb institution of that city, president of the American Sunday-school Union, and a contributor to various other charitable and religious undertakings.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Becerra, Francisco

Edition of 1900.
​BECERRA, Francisco (be-ther'-rah), Spanish architect, lived in the latter part of the 16th century. He established himself in Puebla de los Angeles, Mexico, and built there the cathedral and several convents. The famous cathedral of Lima, the church of Cuzco, and several bridges, are also numbered among his works, which rank with the best specimen of architecture in Spanish America.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Beck, George

Edition of 1900.
​BECK, George, poet, b. in England in 1749; d. in Lexington, Ky., 24 Dec., 1812. He was instructor in mathematics at Woolwich from 1776, but was afterward dismissed. He emigrated to the United States in 1795, and was employed in painting pictures. He wrote short poems, made poetic translations from Anacreon, Homer, Virgil, and Horace, and in 1812 published “Observations on the Comet.” In 1795 he served as a scout in Wayne's campaign against the Indians. With his wife, who was also an artist, he conducted for many years a female seminary in Lexington, Ky.
# Ariel (Stedman)

"Wert thou on earth to-day, immortal one,"
* Edmund Clarence Stedman (1897), "Ariel" in Poems, now first collected.
* Edmund Clarence Stedman (1908), "Ariel" in The poems of Edmund Clarence Stedman.
# Arion (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)

* From The Literary Gazette, November 1822
* From The Improvisatrice; and Other Poems (1824)
# Arise, My Soul, On Wings Sublime

Arise, my soul, on wings sublime,
Above the vanities of time;
Let faith now pierce the veil, and see
The glories of eternity.
Born by a new, celestial birth,
Why should I grovel here on earth?
Why grasp at vain and fleeting toys, So near to heaven's eternal joys?
Shall aught beguile me on the road,
The narrow road that leads to God?
Or can I love this earth so well,
As not to long with God to dwell?
To dwell with God, to taste his love,
Is the full heaven enjoyed above:
The glorious expectation now Is heavenly bliss begun below.
# Ariel

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* "Ariel", hymn tune by Lowell Mason based on themes by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
* "Ariel", poem by Edmund Clarence Stedman
# Ariel's Song

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Any of several songs sung by Ariel in William Shakespeare's The Tempest (1623):
* Ariel's Song (Come unto these yellow sands)
* Ariel's Song (Full fathom five thy father lies)
* Ariel's Song (Where the bee sucks, there suck I)
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# Arise, My Soul, Arise

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* "Arise, My Soul, Arise" (…Shake off thy guilty fears), a hymn by Charles Wesley
* "Arise, My Soul, Arise" (…Thy Savior's sacrifice), a hymn by Charles Wesley
# Arise, My Soul, Arise (Wesley, 1742)

"First published in Hymns & Sacred Poems, 1742, p. 264, in 5 stanzas of 6 lines and entitled "Behold the Man." —"Arise, my soul, arise, Shake off, &c.," in A Dictionary of Hymnology, (ed.) by John Julian (1892)
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* "Arise, My Soul, Arise" in The Army and Navy Hymnal, 1920
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# Ariel's Song (Come unto these yellow sands, unsourced)

A song from The Tempest
Come unto these yellow sands,  And then take hands: Curtsied when you have, and kiss'd  The wild waves whist, Foot it featly here and there; And, sweet sprites, the burthen bear.  Hark, hark! Bow-wow.  The watch-dogs bark. Bow-wow.  Hark, hark! I hear  The strain of strutting chanticleer  Cry, Cock-a-diddle-dow.
Full fathom five thy father lies;  Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes:  Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:  Ding-dong. Hark! now I hear them—Ding-dong, bell.
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Arise, my soul, arise; shake off thy guilty fears; The bleeding sacrifice in my behalf appears: Before the throne my surety stands, Before the throne my surety stands, My name is written on His hands.
He ever lives above, for me to intercede; His all redeeming love, His precious blood, to plead: His blood atoned for all our race, His blood atoned for all our race, And sprinkles now the throne of grace.
Five bleeding wounds He bears; received on Calvary; They pour effectual prayers; they strongly plead for me: “Forgive him, O forgive,” they cry, “Forgive him, O forgive,” they cry, “Nor let that ransomed sinner die!”
The Father hears Him pray, His dear anointed One; He cannot turn away, the presence of His Son; His Spirit answers to the blood, His Spirit answers to the blood, And tells me I am born of God.
My God is reconciled; His pardoning voice I hear; He owns me for His child; I can no longer fear: With confidence I now draw nigh, With confidence I now draw nigh, And “Father, Abba, Father,” cry.
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# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Bessels, Emil

Edition of 1900.
​BESSELS, Emil, scientist, b. in Heidelberg, Germany, 2 June, 1847; d. in Stuttgart, 30 March, 1888. He was educated at the university of his native place, was made an assistant at the Royal museum of Stuttgart, and there became interested in arctic discovery. In 1869 he made the voyage with August Petermann into waters between Spitzbergen and Nova Zembla. By his observations he traced the influence of the gulf stream east of Spitzbergen, adding to the scanty knowledge of that region. He was chief of the scientific department of the “Polaris” expedition of 1870–'3, and in 1876 edited the first three volumes of scientific results of that expedition, devoted to hydrography, meteorology, and astronomy. He was also in the expedition of Dorst and Weyprecht, and edited reports of the U. S. naval institute. Dr. Bessels returned to Washington, where he prepared articles on arctic and zoological subjects, and projected a work on the Eskimo, but all his manuscripts were destroyed by fire in 1885. Soon after he sailed for his native land, where he settled in Stuttgart, occupying his time in literary pursuits, in the study of art, and in geographical instruction and lectures.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Belmont, August (banker)

Edition of 1900. Supplement.
​BELMONT, August, banker, b. in New York city, 18 Feb., 1853. He is a son of the late banker of the same name (q. v.), and was graduated from Harvard in 1875, immediately entering his father's banking-house, of which he is now the head — August Belmont & Co., American representatives of the Rothschilds. He is chairman of the board of directors of the Louisville and Nashville railway, and connected with various financial enterprises. — His younger, brother, Oliver Hazard Perry, was graduated from the U. S. naval academy in 1879, and for several years has taken an active part, as a Democrat, in the politics of his native city and state of New York.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Bergin, Darby

Edition of 1900.
​BERGIN, Darby, Canadian physician, b. in Toronto, 7 Sept., 1830. He was graduated in medicine at McGill college in 1847. He entered the volunteer military service as captain of a company raised by him during the "Trent" difficulty in 1861 ; became a major in 1866, and promoted in 1869 to be lieutenant-colonel of the 59th Stormount and Glengarry battalion. He was appointed surgeon-general of the Dominion troops during the Riel rebellion of 1885. He entered parliament as a conservative in 1872, and was returned for the same constituency (Cornwall) in 1878. In 1881 he was elected president of the medical council of Ontario, and in 1885 president of the college of physicians and surgeons of Ontario.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Berliner, Emile

Edition of 1900.
​BERLINER, Emile, inventor, b. in Hanover, Germany, 20 May, 1851. He was graduated atSamson college, Wolfenbüttel, in 1865. He came to this country in 1870 and settled in Washington, D. C., in 1882. From 1879 to 1882 he was chief instrument inspector of the Bell telephone company. He discovered early in 1877 the loose contact principle of the modern telephone transmitter, independently made known by Hughes in England in the autumn of that year. He also introduced the use of induction-coils in telephone transmitters and is the patentee of other inventions.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Bergmann, Carl

Edition of 1900.
​BERGMANN, Carl, musician, b. in Ebersbach, Saxony, in 1821; d. in New York, 10 Aug., 1876. The rebellion of 1848 obliged him to flee his native land, and he came to New York. In 1850-'2 he was the conductor of the Germania society. He organized and conducted the great German music festival, held in the Winter Garden theatre, in 1855, and in 1856 introduced German opera at Niblo's garden. He afterward became the conductor of German and Italian opera in New York, and was for a time the leader of the Arion (singing) society. Prof. Bergmann excelled as a player of the violoncello and the piano, and composed orchestral pieces. He was conductor of the concerts of the philharmonic society in New York for several years preceding his death.