One of them actually came into conflict with popular religion; it will be natural to begin with him.
A view of popular religion such as I have here sketched bore in itself the germ of a further development which must lead in other directions.
Unfortunately it is not evident from the account whether his criticism was directed mostly against popular religion or against the theology of the philosophers.
It explains the low and magical character of the residue of popular religion, every ceremony and deity of importance being put under Brahmanic patronage, and it also explains the sudden appearance of new deities.
Secondly, in the spells and charms of the Atharva[239], which received the Brahmanic imprimatur later than the other three Vedas, we find an outlook differing from that of the other Vedas and resembling the popular religion of China.
But they had not so long and powerful a reign over the Roman mind as Stoicism, and, although the earlier Stoicism extended a philosophic patronage to popular religion, it may be doubted whether it stimulated faith.
Amid all the confused ferment of devotion a certain principle of unity and comprehension was asserting itself, even in popular religion.
Even the elder Pliny, who rejected almost with scorn the popular religion, was led by a dream to undertake his history of the wars in Germany.
This, it is plain, could never be a popular religion.
Philosophical thought was antagonistic to anthropomorphism, which, as we have seen, was the most characteristic feature of popular religion in Greece, and which was essential to Greek religious art.
In another letter to Cato, we have some hints of the higher degrees, and concerning a peculiar morality, and a popular religion, which the Order was one day to give the world.
Do states, civil obligations, popular religion, fulfil the intentions of men who established them?
In India, also, Buddhism, as soon as it became a popular religion, had to speak a more human language than that of metaphysical Pyrrhonism.
They must have been reserved for a few of his disciples, and they would never have formed the nucleus for a popular religion.
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