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The myths connected with individual sanctuaries and ceremonies were merely part of the apparatus of the worship; they served to excite the fancy and sustain…

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But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force…
It is only in times of social dissolution, as in the last age of the small Semitic states, when men and their…
This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis, but it satisfies the conditions of a legitimate hypothesis, by postulating…
That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree…
In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical…
We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into…
Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to…
The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.
Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was…
In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these…
The god, it would appear, was frequently thought of as the physical progenitor or first father of his people.
The land of a god corresponds with the land of his worshipers.

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