 We may here introduce an extremely just and apposite remark of Constant in his work on Roman polytheism : " Indecent rites may be practised by a religious people with the greatest purity of heart. But when incredulity has gained a footing among these...  The Anthropological Review - Seite cxli1870Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1871 - 558 Seiten
...Roman polytheism : " Indecent rites may be practised by a religious people with the greatest purity of heart. But when incredulity has gained a footing...worship of Priapus, he says, "our ideas of propriety load us to suppose that a ceremony which appears to us so infamous could only be invented by licentiousness... | |
 | Hodder Michael Westropp - 1874 - 112 Seiten
...Roman polytheism : " Indecent rites may be practised by a religious people with the greatest purity of heart. But when incredulity has gained a footing...licentiousness ; but it is impossible to believe that * The thigh had a peculiar sanctity. It was the part burned of the sacrificial victim as of a sweet... | |
 | Hodder Michael Westropp - 1874 - 136 Seiten
...Roman polytheism : " Indecent rites may be practised by a religious people with the greatest purity of heart. But when incredulity has gained a footing...licentiousness; but it is impossible to believe that * The thigh had a peculiar sanctity. It was the part burned of the sacrificial victim as of a sweet... | |
 | 1885 - 930 Seiten
...well explained it: "Indecent rites may be practiced by a religious people with the greatest purity of heart ; but when incredulity has gained a footing...cause and pretext of the most revolting corruption." But, under whatever phases we observe the matter, it is none the less true that the mystery of life... | |
 | Hodder Michael Westropp - 1885 - 112 Seiten
...religious people with the greatest purity of heart. But when incredulity has gained a footing amongst these peoples, these rites become then the cause and...us to suppose that a ceremony which appears to us infamous could only be invented by licentiousness ; but it is impossible to believe that licentiousness... | |
 | Roswell Park - 1899 - 394 Seiten
...Roman Polytheism, says: "Indecent rites may be practiced by religious people with the greatest purity of heart; but when incredulity has gained a footing among these peoples, then those rites become the cause and pretext of the most revolting corruption." The phallic symbol... | |
 | Josiah Morse - 1906 - 284 Seiten
...religious peopie with the greatest purity of heart. But when incredulity has gained a footing amongst these peoples, these rites become then the cause and pretext of the most revolting corruption" J Likewise Voltaire : " Our ideas of propriety lead us to suppose that a ceremony which appears to... | |
 | Roswell Park - 1912 - 394 Seiten
...Roman Polytheism says, "Indecent rites may be practiced by religious people with the greatest purity of heart, but when incredulity has gained a footing among these peoples then those rites become the cause and pretext of the most revolting corruption." The phallic symbol... | |
 | R. Swinburne Clymer - 1996 - 204 Seiten
...more advanced civilization verging towards its decline, as we have evidence at Home and Pompeii. 347. "Our ideas of propriety lead us to suppose that a ceremony which appears to us infamous could only be invented by licentiousness ; but it is impossible to believe that licentiousness... | |
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