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... Natural Productions - Personal Appearance of Deities - All Man's Ideas suggested by his Surroundings - Phenomena Supposed to be Produced by Intelligent Powers - Insanity and Disease attributed to Evil Spirits - Origin of the Priesthood ...
... Natural Productions - Personal Appearance of Deities - All Man's Ideas suggested by his Surroundings - Phenomena Supposed to be Produced by Intelligent Powers - Insanity and Disease attributed to Evil Spirits - Origin of the Priesthood ...
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... nature of the people they had created , that they commanded the people to love them . Some were so ignorant as to suppose that man could believe just as he might desire , or as they might command , and that to be governed by observation ...
... nature of the people they had created , that they commanded the people to love them . Some were so ignorant as to suppose that man could believe just as he might desire , or as they might command , and that to be governed by observation ...
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... natural production . Man has created them all , and under the same circumstances would create them again . Man has not only created all these gods , but he has created them out of the materials by which he has been surrounded ...
... natural production . Man has created them all , and under the same circumstances would create them again . Man has not only created all these gods , but he has created them out of the materials by which he has been surrounded ...
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... Nature would have been women , and instead of being represented in the apparel of man , they would have luxuriated in trains , low- necked dresses , laces and back - hair . Nothing can be plainer than that each nation gives to its god ...
... Nature would have been women , and instead of being represented in the apparel of man , they would have luxuriated in trains , low- necked dresses , laces and back - hair . Nothing can be plainer than that each nation gives to its god ...
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... nature man cannot go even in thought —above nature he cannot rise- below nature he cannot fall . Man , in his ignorance , supposed that all phe- nomena were produced by some intelligent powers , and with direct reference to him . To ...
... nature man cannot go even in thought —above nature he cannot rise- below nature he cannot fall . Man , in his ignorance , supposed that all phe- nomena were produced by some intelligent powers , and with direct reference to him . To ...
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Page 20 - And the woman said unto, the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
Page 486 - For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned : but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Page 464 - And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life ? And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good ? there is none good but one, that is, God : but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
Page 126 - These are the times that try men's souls : The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it Now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Page 482 - Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken anything from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.
Page 21 - So he drove out the man: and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
Page 20 - And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil ; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree -of life, and eat, and live for ever...