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U mukom  stečenim danima samine na proplancima Istrie, gdje ne carujuju šablonizirani izmi, gdje nedjelja i ponedeljak bivaju isti, i gdje se dani razlikuju po sunčanom  spokoju proljetnih cvrkutanja  od jesenjih zamrzlih sivila,danas, iz cjelodnevnog druženja sa Winwood Reade-om odvajan jedan od njegovih literalnih bisera:

„Those strange religious and commercial communities, those landless colonies which an  Oriental people had established all over the  world, from the Rhone and the Rhine to the Oxus and Jaxartes , ; which corresponde regularly among themselves , and whose members recognise each other,whereever they might be and in whatever garb, by the solemn phase, Hear, Israel,  there is one God!  afforded a model for the Christians churches of the early days.  The primitive Chistians, did not, ideed, live together in one quarter, like the Jews, but they gathered togheter for purposes of woship and administration in set places at appointed  time. They did not establish commercial relations with the  Chistian in other towns, but they kept up an active social correspondence, an hospitably  entertained the foreing brother  who brought letters of introduction as credential of his creed. Traveling , troungh not allway free from danger , was unobstruted in those days:  coasters sailed frequently from port to port, and the large town were connected by paved  roads with a posting -house at every six-mile stage. All inn- keepers spok e Greek: it was  not necessray to learn latin  even in order to reside in Rome.“

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