Brooke Foss Westcott 
Gospel of the Resurrection [PDF ebook] 
Thoughts on Its Relation to Reason and History

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Christian morality (so called) has all the charac ters of a re-action; it is, in great part, a protest ‘against Paganism. Its ideal is negative rather ‘than positive: passive rather than active: Inno ‘cence rather than Nobleness: Abstinence from Evil rather than energetic Pursuit of Good; in its ‘precepts (as has been well said) thou shalt not.