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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... regarded as enemies. The Old Testament appraised. The Jews and their pretensions. Hebraic idea of Jehovah. The sun and moon. God and goddess. Importance of sexual perfection in a Hebrew male. Women are prizes given to the faithful Jews ...
... regarded as enemies. The Old Testament appraised. The Jews and their pretensions. Hebraic idea of Jehovah. The sun and moon. God and goddess. Importance of sexual perfection in a Hebrew male. Women are prizes given to the faithful Jews ...
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... regarded as an enemy by the majority, and especially by those whose practice or whose theories his discoveries supersede. Yet, great as is the contest which any new truth has to sustain, there is no doubt whatever that the first part of ...
... regarded as an enemy by the majority, and especially by those whose practice or whose theories his discoveries supersede. Yet, great as is the contest which any new truth has to sustain, there is no doubt whatever that the first part of ...
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... regarded Jehovah as having human passions and very human failings—as loving, revengeful, stern, merry, and vacillating—as "everything by turns and nothing long"—as forming a resolution, and then contriving how He might, as it were ...
... regarded Jehovah as having human passions and very human failings—as loving, revengeful, stern, merry, and vacillating—as "everything by turns and nothing long"—as forming a resolution, and then contriving how He might, as it were ...
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... regarded the Almighty as punishing crime or rewarding goodness in this world alone, and, consequently, we inferred either—(1) that the conversation said to have been held between Jehovah and certain apocryphal men did not really occur ...
... regarded the Almighty as punishing crime or rewarding goodness in this world alone, and, consequently, we inferred either—(1) that the conversation said to have been held between Jehovah and certain apocryphal men did not really occur ...
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... regarded as Divine. This, again, involves the question, how far Jesus, who had not penetration enough to discover the true nature of the writings to which he trusted, can be considered as an incarnation of Divine knowledge, or of ...
... regarded as Divine. This, again, involves the question, how far Jesus, who had not penetration enough to discover the true nature of the writings to which he trusted, can be considered as an incarnation of Divine knowledge, or of ...
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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