William Robertson Smith's Quotes

William Robertson Smith's Quotes 8

We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men...

Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was...

The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion and dethrones...

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Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and...

In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with...

But strictly speaking this mythology was no essential part of ancient...

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In all the antique religions mythology takes the place of dogma that is the...

Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive...