The History of Christianity from the Birth of Christ to the Abolition of Paganism in the Roman Empire, Volume 1John Murray, 1867 - Church history |
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... worship of those gods was extended over a wider surface , but rarely propagated among the subject races . To drag in triumph the divinities of a vanquished people was the last and most insulting mark of subjugation . Yet , though the ...
... worship of those gods was extended over a wider surface , but rarely propagated among the subject races . To drag in triumph the divinities of a vanquished people was the last and most insulting mark of subjugation . Yet , though the ...
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... worship ; whether the human mind is necessarily confined to a certain circle of religious notions ; whether the striking phenomena of the visible world , presented to the imagination of various people in a similar state of civilisation ...
... worship ; whether the human mind is necessarily confined to a certain circle of religious notions ; whether the striking phenomena of the visible world , presented to the imagination of various people in a similar state of civilisation ...
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... worship of the heavenly bodies , in general pre- vailed ; which among the agricultural races The Fetiche of the African is the Manitou of the American Indian . The word Fetiche was first , I believe , brought into general use in the ...
... worship of the heavenly bodies , in general pre- vailed ; which among the agricultural races The Fetiche of the African is the Manitou of the American Indian . The word Fetiche was first , I believe , brought into general use in the ...
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... worship , worship . simple in its primary elements , but branching out into mythological fables , rich and diversified in pro- portion to the poetic genius of the people . This Nature- worship in its simpler , probably its earlier form ...
... worship , worship . simple in its primary elements , but branching out into mythological fables , rich and diversified in pro- portion to the poetic genius of the people . This Nature- worship in its simpler , probably its earlier form ...
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... worship . Poets . But the poets were the priests of this Nature - worship ; and from their creative imagination arose the popular mythology , which gave its separate deity to every part of animate or inanimate being ; and , departing ...
... worship . Poets . But the poets were the priests of this Nature - worship ; and from their creative imagination arose the popular mythology , which gave its separate deity to every part of animate or inanimate being ; and , departing ...
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