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Thus the divine traditions, the teaching of the fathers, and the authority of the Catholic Church are rejected, and every one in his own way interprets the words of the Lord, and distorts their meaning, thereby falling into miserable error." Encycl.
Political education is like the keystone to the arch the strength of the whole depends upon it. Encycl. Britt. Sup. Art. "Education."
LITERATURE. Works mentioned on pp. 16, 42: Pietschmann, Geschichte der Phoenizier ; Rawlinson, History of Phoenicia ; E. Meycr, Art. Phoenicia in the Encycl. Bibl.; Perrot & Chipiez, History of Art in Phoenicia and Cyprus, 2 vols.; Renan, Mission de Phenicie ; Meltzer, Geschichte der Karthager; F. W. Newman's Defense of Carthage.
As, for instance, the festival of John the Baptist in June took the place of the pagan midsummer festival of water and bathing; the Assumption of the Virgin in August the place of that of Diana in the same month; and the festival of All Souls early in November, that of the world-wide pagan feasts of the dead and their ghosts at the same season. See Encycl. Brit. art. "Chronology." Encycl.
The learned modern Ethnologists, however, will generally have none of this latter idea. For other absurd Sunday taboos see Westermarck on The Moral Ideas, vol. ii, p. 289. For a tracing of this taboo from useless superstition to practical utility see Hastings's Encycl. Religion and Ethics, art. "The Sabbath."
It was not until the eighteenth century that this became the uniform date for the commencement of the legal year among the Latin Christian nations. On the general subjects of chronology: Encycl. Britt., Arts. Chronology and Calendar. Ethnology is a new science.
And then she spent all the time writing a letter, to him of course ! Hella and I have just been reading a lot of things in the encycl., about Birth and Pregnancy, and I on my own about abor ; we came across the words Embyro and Foetus, and I said nothing at the time but tied 2 knots in my handkerchief to remind me, and yesterday I looked them up.
Moreover, it is not possible to find in all countries once civilized proofs of a passage through these successive eras. In Egypt, the evidences of a Stone Age are scanty. The most ancient human remains show that man in his physical characteristics was on a level with man at present. Dr. Literature. Wilson, Prehistoric Man, etc. Anthropology, Encycl.
Arthur Keith, Ancient Types of Man , pp. 93 and 102, puts the figure at more like a million. See Ancient Hunters ; also Hastings's Encycl. art. "Ethnology"; and Havelock Ellis, "The Origin of War," in The Philosophy of Conflict and other Essays.
Beneficialwesens, etc.; Secretan, Essai sur la Feodalite; Smith, T., English Guilds ; WILDA, Das Gildenwesen im Mittelalter ; Seignobos, The Feudal Regime. Works on the Crusades. G. W. COX, The Crusades ; also, art. Crusades in the Encycl. For works on Mohammedanism and the Arabic kingdom, see p. 232.
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