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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... human race, is to convert our conception of the Author of all good into the conventional "Devil." The comparison may be summed up thus: I believe in God, the Father of all things; the so-called orthodox believe in the God Satan. I do ...
... human race, is to convert our conception of the Author of all good into the conventional "Devil." The comparison may be summed up thus: I believe in God, the Father of all things; the so-called orthodox believe in the God Satan. I do ...
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... human mind to make the best of that which is in actual existence and familiar to the vulgar, rather than to adopt something entirely new. The child who dislikes to go to bed at night equally dislikes to get up in the morning, and we ...
... human mind to make the best of that which is in actual existence and familiar to the vulgar, rather than to adopt something entirely new. The child who dislikes to go to bed at night equally dislikes to get up in the morning, and we ...
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... human origin, and that its authors had a very mean and degrading notion of the Lord of Heaven and Earth. We proved ... human passions and very human failings—as loving, revengeful, stern, merry, and vacillating—as "everything by turns ...
... human origin, and that its authors had a very mean and degrading notion of the Lord of Heaven and Earth. We proved ... human passions and very human failings—as loving, revengeful, stern, merry, and vacillating—as "everything by turns ...
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... human sacrifices. Manufactured goods. Bronze in Yucatan. Resemblance between the ancient American people and certain Orientals. Abbé Domenech's travels. Sacrifice at obsequies, idea involved thereby. Scythian proceedings. Mexico and its ...
... human sacrifices. Manufactured goods. Bronze in Yucatan. Resemblance between the ancient American people and certain Orientals. Abbé Domenech's travels. Sacrifice at obsequies, idea involved thereby. Scythian proceedings. Mexico and its ...
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... Human sacrifice. No sexual deities or rites. Question of credibility—God and the Devil act alike! Aztecs and Europeans compared. Christians have offered human sacrifice from the time of Peter downwards. Transubstantiation is a cannibal ...
... Human sacrifice. No sexual deities or rites. Question of credibility—God and the Devil act alike! Aztecs and Europeans compared. Christians have offered human sacrifice from the time of Peter downwards. Transubstantiation is a cannibal ...
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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