This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ...there is no ground for doubt on the subject. Archbishop Whateley, whilst insisting that the doctrine of immortality was not really known till Jesus Christ revealed it, acknowledges that the ancient heathen lawgivers taught it "from a persuasion of its importance for men's conduct." And it is certain that it has entered ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ...there is no ground for doubt on the subject. Archbishop Whateley, whilst insisting that the doctrine of immortality was not really known till Jesus Christ revealed it, acknowledges that the ancient heathen lawgivers taught it "from a persuasion of its importance for men's conduct." And it is certain that it has entered into all the different forms of religion. Many of the gods worshiped by the ancient pagan nations, it is known, were deceased men. "As soon," says Gibbon, "as it was allowed that sages and heroes who had lived or who had died for the benefit of their country were exalted to a state of power and immortality, it was universally confessed that they deserved, if not the adoration, at least the reverence, of all mankind." f The learned Dr. Leland speaks of this form of idolatry as one which began very early and prevailed very generally in the world, and "which produced an amazing multiplicity of gods, and continually increased." He quotes the statement of Philo Biblius that "the most ancient barbarians, especially the Phoenicians and Egyptians, from whom other people took this custom, reckoned those amongst the greatest gods who had been the inventors of things useful and necessary to human life, and who had been benefactors to the nations." Cicero said that "almost the whoje heaven is filled with the human race; that upon searching into the ancient accounts, and what the Greek writers have deduced from them, it will be found that even those that are accounted the greater deities, dii majorum gentium, were taken from among men into heaven, that their sepulchres were shown in Greece." " Future State," p. 24. t Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of Home," v. i., p. 18. The pract...
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