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It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines ...
The resemblance between the two movements covers far more than the speed and extent of their conquests. It can be argued that in s ...
The Greeks have given to the world the science of history; the Israelites gave to the world historical religion. In contrast to al ...
I have looked warily at anthropologists ever since the day when I went to hear a great Greek scholar lecture on the Iliad, and lis ...
Dionysus, as we see him in art and poetry, is the projected expression of the ways and dreams of this primitive people, brooded ov ...
The myth of Demeter and Persephone, then, illustrates the power of the Greek religion as a religion of pure ideas--of conceptions, ...
But the house of the prudent countryman will be, of course, a place of honest manners; and Demeter Thesmophoros is the guardian of ...
Whenever the deity contrives misfortunes for a man, he first harms their understanding.
The form of act or thought mattered nothing. The hymns of David, the plays of Shakespeare, the metaphysics of Descartes, the crime ...
The scientific mind is atrophied, and suffers under inherited cerebral weakness, when it comes in contact with the eternal woman-- ...
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