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Which Quotes by William Robertson Smith
- That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the…
- We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of…
- Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this…
- Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our…
- But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation…
- This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong…
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