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Updated: May 19, 2025
Men did not pause to remember that Mahomedanism is the great exception, being as it is a protest against all idol-worship whatsoever; so that it was a signal injustice to call an idol a 'mawmet' or a Mahomet, and idolatry 'mammetry. A misnomer such as this may remind us of the immense importance of possessing such names for things as shall not involve or suggest an error.
Mahomedanism being the most prominent form of false religion with which our ancestors came in contact, 'mammetry' was used, up to and beyond the Reformation, to designate first any false religion, and then the worship of idols; idolatry being proper to, and a leading feature of, most of the false religions of the world.
We have another of a parallel injustice, in the use which 'mammetry, a contraction of 'Mahometry, obtained in our early English.
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