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(From Murtipuja Book, Page 103 ) Logicians may reason about abstractions, but the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle. There is every reason to believe, that the first inhabitants of Greece,worshipped one invisible Diety, but the necessity of having something more definite to adore produced in a few centuries, the innumerable orowd of Gods and Godesses. In like manner, the anceint Persians thought it impious to exhibit the creator under a human form. Yet even these transferred to the sun worship which, in speculation be considered due only to the supreme mind. The history of the Jews, is the record of a continued struggle between pure Theism supported by the most terrible sanctions, and the strongly fascinating desire of having visible and tangible object of adoration.
God, the uncreated, the incomprehensible, the invisible attracted few worshippers. A Philosopher might admire so noble a conception but the
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