...which Gibbon describes when saying, " The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true...false ; and by the magistrate as equally useful." The Mahabharata is therefore the source of all the Puranas, th« Purana emphatically so called, and...

...which Gibbon describes when saying, " The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Eoman world were all considered by the people as equally true...false ; and by the magistrate as equally useful." The Mahabharata is therefore the source of all the Puranas, the Parana emphatically so called, and...

...submitted to the Roman yoke." [2.] " The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true...false ; and by the magistrate as equally useful." [3.] " The deities of a thousand groves and a thousand streams possessed, in peace, their local and...

...may compare with Gibbon's language ' the various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true,...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful ' — he goes on to say of the 2nd facilius inter parûtes in echóla quam extra in foro ferre possunt...

...the religions of the Roman Empire : * The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true,...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful.' If he was an infidel, he was such from conviction, from temperament, from environment. A lover of order,...

...one. Gibbon says of the various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world that " all were considered by the people as equally true, by the philosopher...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful." There is no violence in the assumption that Judge Black has been so absorbed by the thought that the...

...principles. ' The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all,' he remarks, 'considered by the people as equally true, by the...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful.' Some feeling of this kind constituted the whole of Gibbon's religious belief : the philosophers of...

...speaking of the various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman Empire, remarks that " they were considered by the people as equally true, by the philosopher...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful." " After eighteen centuries of the Gospel," some one has added, " we seem unhappily to be coming back...

...account of the Paganism of Rome : " The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true,...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful." But upon what evidence is this theory of non-responsibility built up ? Has it the logic of reasoning,...

...profound pity and wonder. ' The various modes of worship,' to use a famous sentence of Gibbon's,1 ' were all considered by the people as equally true...false ; and by the magistrate as equally useful.' Religion had ceased to exercise moral correction or control over men. Thinking men had long ago given...