Ancient Faiths and Modern: A Dissertation Upon Worships, Legends and Divinities in Central and Western Asia, Europe, and Elsewhere, Before the Christian Era. Showing Their Relations to Religious Customs as They Now Exist |
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Page xiii
... evidence upon which they are founded - with special reference to the differential value of Christian and unchristian faith and practice . As was natural , this involved the question constantly before my mind in the preceding volumes ...
... evidence upon which they are founded - with special reference to the differential value of Christian and unchristian faith and practice . As was natural , this involved the question constantly before my mind in the preceding volumes ...
Page xviii
... evidence . Juvenal . Jews and Chaldeans . Sadducees and Pharisees . Sadducees and our Reformers compared . A legal anecdote . Angels in Ancient Italy . Our angelic forms are of Etruscan origin . Some such beings had three pairs of wings ...
... evidence . Juvenal . Jews and Chaldeans . Sadducees and Pharisees . Sadducees and our Reformers compared . A legal anecdote . Angels in Ancient Italy . Our angelic forms are of Etruscan origin . Some such beings had three pairs of wings ...
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... evidence and exercise their power of ratiocina- tion . I have been unable to find that any work was written in refutation of the author's views , and the only opposition to it was from the usual agent of the weak - minded , but strong ...
... evidence and exercise their power of ratiocina- tion . I have been unable to find that any work was written in refutation of the author's views , and the only opposition to it was from the usual agent of the weak - minded , but strong ...
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... evidence at his command with critical acumen , rather than accept the state- ments made by more or less careless observers . Endeavouring , therefore , to avoid these difficulties as far as possible , let us summarize the result of our ...
... evidence at his command with critical acumen , rather than accept the state- ments made by more or less careless observers . Endeavouring , therefore , to avoid these difficulties as far as possible , let us summarize the result of our ...
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... evidence that the artificial erections , which were so built as to be visible from an enormous dis- tance , were designed , possibly , as cairns , or memorials of the dead , but also as spots for sacrificial offerings , resembling those ...
... evidence that the artificial erections , which were so built as to be visible from an enormous dis- tance , were designed , possibly , as cairns , or memorials of the dead , but also as spots for sacrificial offerings , resembling those ...
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