Ancient Faiths And ModernIn 'Ancient Faiths and Modern', Thomas Inman explores the history of religious customs and divinities before the Christian era, with a focus on Central and Western Asia, Europe, and beyond. Inman began his journey to understanding the healing arts while working as a surgeon and witnessing the varying practices of his colleagues. He realized that the physician's power for good was limited and began to investigate the laws of health and disease. Inman discovered that many good men and women, including clergymen, aspired to the position of medical professors without going through the usual career, resulting in heterodox and orthodox sides. The book delves into the suppression of truth in the pulpit and the culpable coloring in accounts of heathen cults. Inman's work provides insight into ancient religions and their influence on mankind, revealing that good and bad individuals can be found in every nation and that some pagan virtues surpass those of Christianity. |
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... adopt my views, they would deprive themselves of the means of living. Men, like horses or tigers, monkeys and codfish, can do without doctors. Here and there, it is true, that the art and skill of the physician or surgeon can relieve ...
... adopt my views, they would deprive themselves of the means of living. Men, like horses or tigers, monkeys and codfish, can do without doctors. Here and there, it is true, that the art and skill of the physician or surgeon can relieve ...
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... adopted, there would be no need either for parson or for doctor. Instead of discovering, as I had hoped to do, which ... adoption. It required much courage to allow myself to believe that doctors have, taking everything into ...
... adopted, there would be no need either for parson or for doctor. Instead of discovering, as I had hoped to do, which ... adoption. It required much courage to allow myself to believe that doctors have, taking everything into ...
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... adopt, inasmuch as we believe that no faith of ancient times has ever wholly fallen like the spire and tower of Chichester, nor has any new system of belief the solidity of that new edifice which has replaced the old. The difficulties ...
... adopt, inasmuch as we believe that no faith of ancient times has ever wholly fallen like the spire and tower of Chichester, nor has any new system of belief the solidity of that new edifice which has replaced the old. The difficulties ...
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... adopted the religious ideas and practices of those who conquered them. Still further, we proved that the Jews had no idea whatever of a future state, and were in utter ignorance of heaven or hell; that they regarded the Almighty as ...
... adopted the religious ideas and practices of those who conquered them. Still further, we proved that the Jews had no idea whatever of a future state, and were in utter ignorance of heaven or hell; that they regarded the Almighty as ...
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... adopted certain emblems, which were intended to represent the distinctive mark of the sex under which it worshipped the Omnipotent, and that the emblems became multiplied as different nations came into contact with each other, learned ...
... adopted certain emblems, which were intended to represent the distinctive mark of the sex under which it worshipped the Omnipotent, and that the emblems became multiplied as different nations came into contact with each other, learned ...
Contents
CHAPTER IV | |
CHAPTER V | |
CHAPTER VI | |
CHAPTER VII | |
Ancient Faiths And Modern | |
CHAPTER VIII | |
CHAPTER IX | |
CHAPTER X | |
APPENDIX 27th March 1875 | |
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