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Excerpt from The Emperor Julian's Relation to the New Sophistic and Neo-Platonism; With a Study of His Style: A Dissertation Resented to the Faculty of Arts, Literature and Science of the University of Chicago in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosohy The chief aim of the following studies has been, as the title indicates, to give a more complete presentation of Julian's relation to the Rhetoric and Philosophy of the fourth Christian century than has hitherto been attempted. Beyond the brief notices given in histories of literature and philosophy, I know of no other systematic treatment of Julian's relation to the New Sophistic, and there seems to have been no previous discussion of his style. Whatever interest the fragments contra Christianos possess for the student of divinity, they have little significance for the student of literature, and have not been taken into consideration here. Special ackowledgements to books consulted have been made in the proper places; I have reserved for this place the acknowledgement of my general indebtedness to Zeller's History of Philosophy, to the monograph of M. Naville, Julien l'Apostat et sa philosophic du Paganisme, to Boissier's La fin du Paganisme, and to Vacherot's Ecole d'Alexandrie. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.