We are so accustomed to think of religion as a …– William Robertson Smith
We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of
We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of
The myths connected with individual sanctuaries and ceremonies were merely part of the apparatus of the worship; they served to excite the fancy and sustain
But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation
This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis… only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong
In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people… and these stories afford the
But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.
The god, it would appear, was frequently thought of as the physical progenitor or first father of his people.
This being so, it follows that mythology ought not to take the prominent place that is too often assigned to it in the scientific study
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