Religious Ceremonies and Customs, Or the Forms of Worship Practised by the Several Nations of the Known World, from the Earliest Records to the Present Time: On the Basis of the Celebrated and Splendid Work of Bernard Picart (Classic Reprint)

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We are nothqievers in this phantom. As furnishing; solution 1; does no; ofanyphenomenon. Wedo not lt thntit is the cause of any thing in existence. Much less do we'suppoee that it can account for the variety e in the religion of mankind If accidentope rated here, it might indeed give a diversity to this propenelty of nature. Or. It might give to it a uniformity. It were just as likely to effect the one as the other, only it would not be apt to pfoduce a uniformity in variety. It would be infinitely 1111 apt to do this. Yet such seems to be literally the case in the religions of the human species. They uniform] differ from one another, and mom of them essentially from t e truth. It concerns those who believe in chance as the cause of any thing. Or the cause of such a moral phenomenon. To make out the proof. There seems to us to be something extremely absurd in referring to conti ency merely, as the cause of an efl'ect, when. By the astute the word. 1t neither is, nor can be known as such a cause. 2. Does the above diversity arise from circumstances [0 reign or external to the mind. Such as timevlocation, climate.

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