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. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ... what the ancient Egyptians felt about the Nile, and even at present a Swiss patriot might well invoke the mountains and rivers to protect him and his house against foreign enemies. But one step follows another. The mountains are asked to listen; this, too, is to a certain extent intelligible still; for why ...
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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. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ... what the ancient Egyptians felt about the Nile, and even at present a Swiss patriot might well invoke the mountains and rivers to protect him and his house against foreign enemies. But one step follows another. The mountains are asked to listen; this, too, is to a certain extent intelligible still; for why should we address them, if they were not to listen The sun is called far-seeing--why not Do we not see the first rays of the rising sun, piercing through the darkness, and glancing every morning at our roof 1 Do not these rays enable us to see 1 Then, why should not the sun be called far-lighting, far-glancing, far-seeing 1 The rivers are called mothers! Why not Do they not feed the meadows, and the cattle on them Does not our very life depend on the rivers not failing us with their water at the proper season And if the sky is called ' not a father, ' or ' like a father, ' or at last father, --does not the sky watch over us, protect us, and protect the whole world 1 Is there anything else so old, so high, at times so kind, at times so terrible as the skyl 1 We seldom meet with writers who defend their belief in the powers of nature against the attacks of believers in one supreme God j nay, it is difficult for us to imagine how, when the idea of one God has once been realised, a faith in independent deities could still be sustained. Yet such passages exist. Celsus, whoever he was, the author of the ' True Story, ' which we know as quoted and refuted by Origen, distinctly defends the Greek polytheism against the Jewish or Christian monotheism: ' The Jews, ' he writes, ' profess to venerate the heavens and the inhabitants of the heavens; but the grandest, the most sublime, of the wonders of those high regions they will not venerate. They adore t
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