Ad Nationes Book I

Tertullian

Format
Paperback
Publisher
Kessinger Publishing
Country
United States
Published
10 September 2010
Pages
38
ISBN
9781162651378

Ad Nationes Book I

Tertullian

We are indeed said to be the third race of men. What, a dog-faced race?(16) Or broadly shadow-footed?(17) Or some subterranean(18) Antipodes? If you attach any meaning to these names, pray tell us what are the first and the second race, that so we may know something of this third. Psammetichus thought that he had hit upon the ingenious discovery of the primeval man. He is said to have removed certain new-born infants from all human intercourse, and to have entrusted them to a nurse, whom he had previously deprived of her tongue, in order that, being completely exiled from all sound of the human voice, they might form their speech without hearing it; and thus, deriving it from themselves alone, might indicate what that first nation was whose speech was dictated by nature.

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