The Life of Jesus: Critically Examined, Volume II of III
'We distinguish by the name evangelical mythus a narrative relating directly or indirectly to Jesus, which may be considered not as the expression of a fact, but as the product of an idea of his earliest followers: such a narrative being mythical in proportion as it exhibits this character . . . . The mythus presents two phases: in the first place it is not history; in the second it is fiction, the product of the particular mental tendency of a certain community' - Strauss' Life of Jesus, volume one, trans. George Eliot--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.