Essays: First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 - 445 pages |
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... religious dance before the gods , and , though in convulsive pain or mortal combat , never daring one to break the figure and decorum of their dance . Thus of the genius of one remarkable people we have a fourfold representation : and ...
... religious dance before the gods , and , though in convulsive pain or mortal combat , never daring one to break the figure and decorum of their dance . Thus of the genius of one remarkable people we have a fourfold representation : and ...
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... those whom the soil or the advantages of a market had induced to build towns . Agriculture therefore was a religious injunction , because of the perils of the state from nomadism . And in these late and civil countries HISTORY 21.
... those whom the soil or the advantages of a market had induced to build towns . Agriculture therefore was a religious injunction , because of the perils of the state from nomadism . And in these late and civil countries HISTORY 21.
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... religious pilgrimage was enjoined , or stringent laws and customs tending to invig- orate the national bond , were the check on the old rovers ; and the cumulative values of long residence are the restraints on the itinerancy of the ...
... religious pilgrimage was enjoined , or stringent laws and customs tending to invig- orate the national bond , were the check on the old rovers ; and the cumulative values of long residence are the restraints on the itinerancy of the ...
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... religion , with some closeness to the faith of later ages . Prometheus is the Jesus of the old mythology . He is the friend of man ; stands between the unjust " justice " of the Eternal Father and the race of mortals , and readily suf ...
... religion , with some closeness to the faith of later ages . Prometheus is the Jesus of the old mythology . He is the friend of man ; stands between the unjust " justice " of the Eternal Father and the race of mortals , and readily suf ...
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... religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment . The other terror that scares us from self - trust is our consistency ; a reverence for our past act or word because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our ...
... religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment . The other terror that scares us from self - trust is our consistency ; a reverence for our past act or word because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our ...
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