Myths and Symbols, or Aboriginal Religions in America

ISBN: 9781333084707 出版年：2016 页码：477 Stephen Denison Peet Forgotten Books

The most striking analogy between the religious systems of America and those which existed in the far East, consists. In the fact that there was a constant progress, and the con ception of Divinity grew higher as civilization advanced, and, yet, strange to say, no such character ever appeared on the continent of America, as that which was embodied in the person of Jesus Christ. In fact, it does not seem possible that the ordinary progress of society could have developed such a character,or even brought the conception. To the human mind, except by the process of divine inspira tion.