By application of the critical method to historical
sources, by pointing out more and more fully the inevitable part
played by myth and legend in early chronicles, by displaying more
and more clearly the ease with which interpolations of texts,
falsifications of statements, and attributions to pretended authors
were made, they paved the way still further toward a just and
fruitful study of sacred literature.[[341]]
Down to the middle of the nineteenth century the traditionally
orthodox side of English scholarship, while it had not been able to
maintain any effective quarantine against Continental criticism of
classical literature, had been able to keep up barriers fairly
strong against Continental discussions of sacred literature. But in
the second half of the nineteenth century these barriers were
broken at many points, and, the stream of German thought being
united with the current of devotion to truth in England, there
appeared early in 1860 a modest volume entitled _Essays and Reviews_.
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