I have written, he said, for the chamber-maid and the waiter, for the postman and the engine driver, for all sorts and conditions of people who fight shy of the Bible because it is the Bible, but who will read a tale when it is told as a tale.
People will tell me, I know, that it takes awa: some of the old charm, and they may even claim that it is offensive. But I have tried not to make it so; I have tried to be reverent throughout, while all the time speaking to them in their own language.
In talking of the trial of Jesus, for instance, I have explained that if Pilate had let Christ off would have meant for him dismissal without pension. That is the way people can understand it.
Mr. Van Loon deals with the first chapter of Genesis after this fashion In the beginning this earth floated through space in sombre
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