Testacella (Zo logy and pal on- Limacid)

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about other peoples, religions, or nationalities that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) in zoölogy and palæon- Limacidæ, with tology, a three recent species, from the S. of genus Great Brit- Europe, the Canary Isles. and to Jer- can sufficiently extol the eloquence of envy and Tertullian! " exclaims Vincentius of Lethe Roman rinum; " almost every word conveys_a causes were thought, every sentence is a victory. He character is among the Latins what Origen is and his re- among the Greeks - the greatest of all. " the Roman Like Origen, Tertullian was a man of the Lapsi, great genius, sincerity, and zeal, a vigorshown to ous ascetic, and an indefatigable worker, the Roman and, though wielding great influence over his contemporaries, was never more than a presbyter. Like him, too, this champion of the Christian faith against all opponents, Jews, heathens, and heretics, Montanists, was himself a heretic to the majority of دو the Christians of his time. Both show the same contempt of the world and enthusiasm for martyrdom. But in the tendency of their views the contrast between them is as striking as in their natural temper and their literary style. Tertullian is an intense realist, with leanings toward materialism, Origen a pure idealist. Origen, like Justin, holds that Greek philosophy was "a preparation for the Gospel," "a fragment of eternal truth from the theology of the everliving Word." Tertullian thinks that "philosophers are blockheads when they knock at the gates of truth," and that "they have contributed nothing whatever that a Christian can accept." "The eloquence of the one," says Presensé, "is broad and transparent like his genius: advocate. His it is a noble, full, majestic river; that adversaries of the other is a turbid mountain tor- . He rent. Origen speaks to philosophers as them a fiery a Christian philosopher: Tertullian is a tribune of the people passionately haranguing the crowd in the forum or at the cross roads; he is the ancient orator, with his vehement gestures, his vivid images, his grandiose pathos." His writings have been called "Tracts for the Times." Most of them are short. They are a rich mine of information as to the relations between Christians and heathens in his time. Though perhaps not the first of the Latin Christian writers, Tertullian was the creator of ecclesiastical Latinity, and impressed upon the language a new character, as he bent it to the service of Christian ideas. His .. works are divided into three classes: (1) Controversial writings against heathens and Jews. His "Apologetic" (ed. by Woodham, 1843; by Bindley, 1891), addressed to the Roman authorities, is an attempt to establish the Christian's right to toleration. A popular edition of this work is presented in his two books "To the Nations," as Uhlhorn and Hauck believe, of earlier date. In his "Concerning the Testimony of the Soul" he acutely develops the thought that Christianity responds to the religious necessi songs and ballads, he wrote: "Arsinda; d'Este," a or, the Line of the Princes ," a tragedy; Alcina drama; "The Isle of A an uncompleted epic , "C " Constantine"; "Italy," a poem in 43 stanzas in which Italy under the situation of the Spanish yoke. He died in Modena. he portrays Italy, Aug. 28, 1646. various substances by means of chemical