History of the Romans Under the Empire Volume 1; With a Copious Analytical Index download

History of the Romans Under the Empire Volume 1; With a Copious Analytical Index download

History of the Romans Under the Empire Volume 1; With a Copious Analytical Index by Charles Merivale

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Author: Charles Merivale
Number of Pages: 156 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
Format: Pdf
ISBN: 9781232420187
File size: 38 Mb
Download Link: History of the Romans Under the Empire Volume 1; With a Copious Analytical Index
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 Excerpt: ...informed, connected with the cathedral of Chartres, which tend to show that this place was selected for a centre of Christian missions from its reputed sanctity under the Druids. Diodor. Sic. v. 32. 'There seems no reason to suppose that the Druidical dogma maintained, like that of Pythagoras, the transmigration of the human soul into the bodies of animals. See Diodor. v. 28. It is not quite certain even that Caesar represents the soul as passing from one human body into another (vi. 14.): Lucan (i. 460.) and Mela (iii. 2.) only assert a belief in its immortality, implying the existence of a future state. See an essay by Chiniac de la Bastide, in Leber, Coll. de Pieces relatives d rffistoire de France, p. iii. essential unity; it abounded in symbols, inculeated retirement and meditation, and upheld the character of its priesthood as mediators between earth and heaven: again, it made use of natural phenomena as means to elevate the mind to the comprehension of a first cause, glided from thence into the frivolous delusions of astrology, and finally degenerated into the impieties and horrors of belief in magic.1 Hence its addiction to human sacrifices," the last resort of superstitious terror endeavouring to extort the secrets of futurity from a reluctant power, and to control the course of destiny. But by the side of this Oriental theism there existed another system, much less distinctive in its character, an elemental 'worship of the grossest kind, in which the objects of nature were identified with the memory of deceased heroes, and the sun and stars, the thunder and the whirlwind, were worshipped as the visible representatives of superior beings. The Roman sceptic was surprised to find the barbarians adoring, as he supposed, the same divinities whom h...

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