 | Lydia Maria Child - 1855 - 480 Seiten
...them the charge of gross indecency. But if it be true at the present time, it probably was not so in the beginning. When the world was in its infancy,...of God and the soul in the solemn depths of their forest sanctuaries. Let us not smile at their mode of tracing the Infinite and Incomprehensible Cause... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - 1855 - 516 Seiten
...it strange that they likewise regarded with reverence the great mystery of human Birth? Were tiiey impure thus to regard it? Or are we impure that we...of God and the soul in the solemn depths of their forest sanctuaries. Let us not smile at their mode of tracing the Infinite and Incomprehensible Cause... | |
 | James Bonwick - 1878 - 472 Seiten
...improper meaning to the simple ancient worshipper. Mrs. Lydia Maria Child asks : " Is it strange that they regarded with reverence the great mystery of human...it ? Or, are we impure that we do not so regard it ? Let us not smile at their mode of tracing the infinite and incomprehensible Cause throughout all... | |
 | Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - 1888 - 732 Seiten
...production of life, introduced into the worship of Osiris the sexual emblems. Is it strange that they regarded with reverence the great mystery of human...they impure thus to regard it ? Or are we impure that do not so regard it ? But no clean and thoughtful mind could so regard them. . . . We have travelled... | |
 | Hudson Tuttle - 1890 - 332 Seiten
...became a sacred ordinance, and the act itself a sacrament to the Creator. As Mrs. Child well remarks, " Were they impure thus to regard it ? Or are we impure that we do not so regard it ? . . . Let us not smile at their mode of tracing Infinite and Incomprehensible Cause through all the... | |
 | Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - 1893 - 794 Seiten
...production of life introduced into the worship of Osiris the sexual emblems. Is it strange that they regarded with reverence the great mystery of human...it? Or are we impure that we do not so regard it? But no clean and thoughtful mind could so regard them. . . . We have travelled far, and unclean have... | |
 | George Claude Lorimer - 1894 - 494 Seiten
...life and magnified them in their ritual. Mrs. Lydia Maria Child inquires : Is it strange that they regarded with reverence the great mystery of human...it ? Or are we impure that we do not so regard it ? Let us not smile at their mode of tracing the infinite and incomprehensible Cause throughout all... | |
 | Roswell Park - 1899 - 394 Seiten
...grand revealings, and heat, making the earth fruitful with beauty, excited wonder and worship among the first inhabitants of our world, is it strange...they impure thus to regard it? Or are we impure that do not so regard it?" Constant, in his work on Roman Polytheism, says: "Indecent rites may be practiced... | |
 | William Gregory Wood-Martin - 1902 - 490 Seiten
...endeavour to form a just estimate of customs once common. '• Is it strange," writes a lady, " that they regarded with reverence the great mystery of human...it ? Or are we impure that we do not so regard it '? Let us not smile at their mode of tracing the infinite and incomprehensible cause throughout all... | |
 | William Gregory Wood-Martin - 1902 - 466 Seiten
...endeavour to form a just estimate of customs once common. '• Is it strange," writes a lady, " that they regarded with reverence the great mystery of human...it ? Or are we impure that we do not so regard it ? Let us not smile at their mode of tracing the infinite and incomprehensible cause throughout all... | |
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God and the soul in the solemn depths of their forest sanctuaries. Let us not smile at their mode of tracing the Infinite and Incomprehensible Cause throughout all the mysteries of Nature, lest by so doing we cast the shadow of our own grossness on their... 
