To-day, millions of copies have spread through the world and it has been translated into thirty-eight languages. It is the great best-seller of this century.. Once read, it cannot be forgotten. And the range of its appeal is tremendous: simple, ill-educated people and great scholars read it. It is a book which moves peasants and Popes. Men and women of every race and of every kind of intelligence and education succumb to its spell. Holy Scripture apart and Holy Scripture is on a wholly different plane from any other book no other book, whether it is concerned with secular or spiritual matters, has this universality of appeal.