This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI IDEAS OF GOD The underlying unity of the world's religions has been traced through the various ceremonies, sacraments, and dogmas, but the object of this work would scarcely be accomplished, without also demonstrating the similarities in the moral teaching, which each religion in turn has ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI IDEAS OF GOD The underlying unity of the world's religions has been traced through the various ceremonies, sacraments, and dogmas, but the object of this work would scarcely be accomplished, without also demonstrating the similarities in the moral teaching, which each religion in turn has inculcated. In spite of the necessarily wide variation in the standard of ethics, in different lands, and at different stages of the world's progress, the marked resemblances of the religious teachings will supply still further evidence in detail, while the foregoing chapters have already indicated the general trend, for in every one of man's religions, may be apparent the consciousness of sin and evil, and the need of some higher and better life. On approaching the subject of Ethics, we have unfortunately to face the fact that literary records of all the great religions are not available, and in such cases the traditions handed down, or the description of the rites that were practised, form the only material from which inferences can be drawn as to the character of the teaching. On some of the long-buried tablets of Nineveh and Babylon, there have, it is true, been found hymns to the gods, and texts dealing with cosmogony and magic, but those which have so far been deciphered, deal mainly with historical events, or with the minutiae of private life. Concerning the ethical ideas of Mexico and Peru, we are equally in the dark, while the sculptured records which alone remain in these countries, give no such hope of further light, as do the still undeciphered inscriptions of Babylon. So too with the Celtic and Scandinavian faiths: some few literary records of these may be found, but they are embodied in works written in Christian times, works...
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