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1. The claim has been made, as I have learned, by some who believe profoundly in their own wisdom and speak in an oracular fashion as if they were the mouthpiece of some god, that after the Christian race began to exist on earth, the world went to ruin, mankind was afflicted with many and varied ills, and even the denizens of heaven themselves, as the result of the abandonment of the ceremonial sacrifices by which they were formerly induced to look after our affairs, were exiled from the regions of the earth.