 | 1880 - 540 pages
...words with such a conclusion — these for example : " The belief in the unity of the Supreme God, aud in His attributes as Creator and Lawgiver of man,...which have passed over that ancient civilization." But we must pass to other points in which the uncertainty of history is illustrated. Classic writers,... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1887 - 540 pages
...the rudimentary form of all religion is the propitiation of dead ancestors' (ibid. p. 127). logical superfetations accumulated in the centuries which have passed over that ancient civilization.' 1 This may be illustrated by the fact, notorious to all observant travellers, that the Egyptian tombs... | |
 | Peter Le Page Renouf - 1880 - 298 pages
...the sources of which we have pointed out, developes itself and progresses without interruption until the time of the Ptolemies. It is, therefore, more...which he relies are in the main unassailable. It is incontestibly true that the sublimer portions of the Egyptian religion are not the comparatively late... | |
 | 1880 - 282 pages
...the sources of which we have pointed out, developes itself and progresses without interruption until the time of the Ptolemies. It is, therefore, more...a somewhat different meaning from that which M. de Eouge" ascribes to them, the facts upon which he relies are in the main unassailable. It is incontestably... | |
 | Peter Le Page Renouf - 1880 - 280 pages
...the sources of which we have pointed out, developes itself and progresses without interruption until the time of the Ptolemies. It is, therefore, more...somewhat different meaning from that •which M. de Bonge* ascribes to them, the facts upon which he relies are in the main unassailable. It is incontestably... | |
 | Abram Newkirk Littlejohn - 1880 - 356 pages
...immortal soul — these are the primitive notions, enchased like indestructible diamonds in the midat of the mythological superfetations accumulated in the centuries which have passed over that ancient life." So that, religiously, man's life is a degeneration. and his true progress now of the nature... | |
 | Richard Salter Storrs - 1884 - 704 pages
...Unity of the Supreme God, and in his attributes as Creator and Lawgiver of man, whom he has en dowed with an immortal soul, — these are the primitive...centuries which have passed over that ancient civilization ' [Emmanuel Rouge]. . . It is incontestably true that the sublimer portions of the Egyptian religion... | |
 | Richard Salter Storrs - 1884 - 698 pages
...Unity of the Supreme God, and in his attributes as Creator and Lawgiver of man, whom he has en dowed •with an immortal soul, — these are the primitive...centuries which have passed over that ancient civilization ' [Emmanuel Rouge]. . . It is incontestably true that the sublimer portions of the Egyptian religion... | |
 | Samuel Henry Kellogg - 1892 - 312 pages
...and in His attributes as Creator and Law-giver of man, . . . these are the primitive notions, encased like indestructible diamonds in the midst of the mythological...the centuries which have passed over that ancient civilisation." 2 The facts thus show that the order of the ^'Origin and Growth of Religion," etc.,... | |
 | 1893 - 764 pages
...unity of the Supreme God and his attributes as Creator and Lawgiver of man are the primitive notions in the midst of the mythological superfetations accumulated...which have passed over that ancient civilization." Any one can read to-day monotheistic reverence for Go'd in the translations of the Prisse papyrus.... | |
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It is, therefore, more than five thousand years since, in the valley of the Nile, the hymn began to the Unity of God and the immortality of the soul, and we find Egypt in the last ages arrived at the most unbridled Polytheism. The belief in the Unity... 
