The ancient saying that the first maker of the Gods was fear receives voluminous corroboration from every age of religious history; but none the less does religious history show the part which joy has evermore tended to play.
Summary of religious history in last years of the war; gratitude to the gods after battle of Metaurus.
In Rome itself, where archaeological study is concentrated and admirably staffed, great progress has been made, and much light thrown on the later periods of religious history.
Conversely, too, the great story of the rise and decay of the Roman dominion cannot be properly understood without following out the religious history of this people--their religious experience, as I prefer to call it.
Though phallic cults proper cannot be shown to be universal among men, they have played a not inconsiderable part in religious history.
The part played in religious history by the worship of the dead is so important that some writers have derived all religion from it.
Such definite embodiment is, however, rare in religious history, probably, as is suggested above, because it involves a large generalization and a more or less distinct symbolism.
Animal-worship has played a great rôle in religious history, but the special part assigned to totemism has often been exaggerated.
Instead of being faithful to and adequately explaining the facts, they pervert, and maltreat, and distort the facts of religious history.
Some singular manifestations of it, of significance in religious history, are presented by the records of insane delusions.
The neglect to do this has given rise to an arbitrariness in the interpretation of many symbols, which has often obscured their position in religious history.
I am led to refer to this by the false light it has thrown on religious history.
In his earlier papers attacking them he had put a stress of malice that, in a mind of his calibre, is startling even to the student of religious history.
He lays the chief stress upon those exceptional moments of religious history when a new religious idea entered into the mind of some prophet or teacher, e.
Metaphysicians have in truth often written about Religion in great ignorance as to the real facts of religious history.
It is a general lesson of religious history that is illustrated so forcibly by the fate of the Inca priest-kings.
Religious history, by bringing clearly into light the universality, the persistency and the prodigious intensity of religion in human life, is therefore, to my mind, one unbroken attestation to God.
Entering into continental Europe, the Quaker Reformation found itself anticipated in the progress of religious history.
How rapidly and powerfully it spread within narrow geographical limits, and how widely it has affected the course of religious history, must appear in later chapters.
The distinction between these two classes of duties becomes apparent on the slightest reflection, and the variations in their relative prominence form one of the most important branches of religious history.
There existed, too, to a very large extent, a kind of superstitious scepticism which occupies a very prominent place in religious history.
Equipped for this purpose through long residence in India and intimate study of India's religious history, what he says will be accepted as the estimate and interpretation of an authority.
Such a death calls for neither exultation nor recrimination, but evokes overwhelming pity at so tragic a downfall unparalleled in religious history.
Viewed in its proper perspective it will be even recognized to have ushered in one of the most eventful and momentous epochs in the world’s religious history.
No pomp, no pageantry marked so great a turning-point in the world’s religious history.
The explorer in the field of religious history, however, comes in here for his meed of praise.
What startling developments of religious history it implies!
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