"It is only in times of social dissolution,……" — William Robertson Smith

It is only in times of social dissolution, as in the last… - William Robertson Smith

"It is only in times of social dissolution, as in the last age of the small Semitic states, when men and their gods were alike powerless before the advance of the Assyrians, that magical superstitions based on mere terror, or rites designed to conciliate alien gods, invade the sphere of tribal or national religion. In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual."

— William Robertson Smith

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