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LAW & HISTORY > essayist, historian > Thomas Carlyle
If Jesus Christ...
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If Jesus Christ were to come to-day, people wouldn't even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
Source: Remark, quoted in D. A. Wilson, Carlyle at his Zenith
-- Thomas Carlyle, (Dec 4 1795-1881), Scottish essayist, historian; He was considered one of the era's great sages and man of letters; wrote The French Revolution, 1837.