 We must not be surprised," he says, " at finding, on a close examination, that the characters of all the Pagan deities, male and female, melt into each other and at last into one or two; for it seems a well-founded opinion, that the whole crowd of gods...  The History of British India - 第 239 頁James Mill 著 - 1817 - 777 頁完整檢視 - 關於此書
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...respect as if the superior being himself, in any other form, was before them. Sir William Jones says, " it seems a well-founded opinion that the whole crowd...of gods and goddesses in ancient Rome, and modern Vdrdnes, mean only the powers of nature, and principally those of the SUN, expressed in a variety of... | |
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