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Error's chains : $b How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.Dobbins, Frank S. (Frank Stockton)

Religion

Error's chains : $b How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.

Name: Error's chains : $b How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.
Author: Dobbins, Frank S. (Frank Stockton)

Dobbins, Frank S. (Frank Stockton)

Idols and images -- Worship; Mythology; Religions

Diana was not worshiped in the temple only. Numberless little shrines,
containing models of Diana in silver or gold, or even wood, were made
to be carried about one’s person, to be set up on household altars or
carried in processions. There was carried on at Ephesus an extensive
trade in these. The worship of Diana, in all its parts and in all
places, was conducted with great magnificence.

The Greek language and literature and their temples and statues, have
been for centuries the models of the world; but their conceptions of
the gods and their myths are no more thought of, and no longer regarded
as of authority in religious affairs. They are emphatically dead as
powers over the morals of men.




                              CHAPTER IX.

                                 ROME.

    “Within this grove, upon this wooded hill,”
    He said, “some deity his dwelling made;
    But who or what, none knows. The Arcadians
    Think they have seen great Jove himself, when oft
    With his right hand he shook his darkening shield,
    And called his clouds around him.
                                              VIRGIL.


    When fierce gales bowed the high pines, when blazed
      The lightning, and the savage in the storm
    Some unknown godhead heard, and, awe-struck, gazed
      On Jove’s imagined form.
                                              SOTHEBY.


Long before Rome was founded Italy was peopled with an industrious
class of farmers. But we have scarce any records of those early
times. Some of their gigantic buildings, lakes and canals remain,
but these are almost all that is left. The religious ideas of these
early settlers entered into and, to a great extent, moulded the
religion of the Romans. The people of Italy did not have the same
vivid imaginations and lively fancies as the people of Greece. Their
early worship seems to have been of a more serious character than that
of the Greeks. Their gods were freer from moral taint, and virtue
rather than vice was required in followers of the Roman religions. The
poetic art was little cultivated among them, or for that matter, in
Rome of a later day. But Rome soon began to borrow from Greece, and
to appropriate her gods, heroes and myths. There are no Italian myths
corresponding to those of Greece. In Virgil and Ovid a few adventures
of the Italian gods are related, but these are plainly imitations or
slight modifications of the Greek stories.


                        THE ETRUSCAN RELIGION.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Opening the text

Religion

Error's chains : $b How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.

Dobbins, Frank S. (Frank Stockton)

Idols and images -- Worship; Mythology; Religions

Diana was not worshiped in the temple only. Numberless little shrines,
containing models of Diana in silver or gold, or even wood, were made
to be carried about one’s person, to be set up on household altars or
carried in processions. There was carried on at Ephesus an extensive
trade in these. The worship of Diana, in all its parts and in all
places, was conducted with great magnificence.

The Greek language and literature and their temples and statues, have
been for centuries the models of the world; but their conceptions of
the gods and their myths are no more thought of, and no longer regarded
as of authority in religious affairs. They are emphatically dead as
powers over the morals of men.




                              CHAPTER IX.

                                 ROME.

    “Within this grove, upon this wooded hill,”
    He said, “some deity his dwelling made;
    But who or what, none knows. The Arcadians
    Think they have seen great Jove himself, when oft
    With his right hand he shook his darkening shield,
    And called his clouds around him.
                                              VIRGIL.


    When fierce gales bowed the high pines, when blazed
      The lightning, and the savage in the storm
    Some unknown godhead heard, and, awe-struck, gazed
      On Jove’s imagined form.
                                              SOTHEBY.


Long before Rome was founded Italy was peopled with an industrious
class of farmers. But we have scarce any records of those early
times. Some of their gigantic buildings, lakes and canals remain,
but these are almost all that is left. The religious ideas of these
early settlers entered into and, to a great extent, moulded the
religion of the Romans. The people of Italy did not have the same
vivid imaginations and lively fancies as the people of Greece. Their
early worship seems to have been of a more serious character than that
of the Greeks. Their gods were freer from moral taint, and virtue
rather than vice was required in followers of the Roman religions. The
poetic art was little cultivated among them, or for that matter, in
Rome of a later day. But Rome soon began to borrow from Greece, and
to appropriate her gods, heroes and myths. There are no Italian myths
corresponding to those of Greece. In Virgil and Ovid a few adventures
of the Italian gods are related, but these are plainly imitations or
slight modifications of the Greek stories.


                        THE ETRUSCAN RELIGION.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Error's chains : $b How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.

Error's chains : $b How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.

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