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Such a national mood is in danger of being followed by a lapse into an effeminate hedonism, from which England as a whole was saved by the antagonistic development of the essentially masculine if crude puritanism, whose vital spirit had already begun to take possession of a large proportion of the population without as yet evicting paganism.
Lowes Dickinson speaks of them as if they were parallel ideals even speaks as if Paganism were the newer of the two, and the more fitted for a new age.
Protestants who have attended their worship, have observed greater appearances of fervor, and greater moving of the passions, than are usual in the religious assembles of other denominations of Christians. And their adoration of angels and departed saints, is only as of mediators and intercessors, who may present their prayers, and obtain favor for them the very idolatry of paganism.
Compared with the religions and laws of surrounding nations, and of preceding ages, Judaism was glorious, but compared with Christianity it is no longer glorious. Judaism compared with Paganism, was a wonder of wisdom, philosophy, and righteousness; but compared with Christianity it is a mass of rudiments, first lessons, beggarly elements.
This fact of itself seems to prove that among the Mohammedan peoples of Northern Africa, as among the Christian peoples of Europe, the midsummer festival is quite independent of the religion which the people publicly profess, and is a relic of a far older paganism.
"And what you are offering this innocent child to-day is meeter to be called an idol, a devilish simulacrum, than a doll. Are you not aware, sir, that the custom of New Year's gifts is a foul superstition and a hideous survival of Paganism?" "No, I did not know that," said M. Chanterelle.
He once asked to have the poem read aloud to him, as he had forgotten its exact words, and when the reader finished impressively I am the Master of my fate: I am the Captain of my soul "The hell you are," said Riley with a laugh. Henley is, of course, interesting not merely because of his paganism, and robust worldliness; he had the poet's imagination and gift of expression.
The great Hohenzollern spoke of the Japanese as the "scourge of God"; in France the "yellow peril" a phrase really made in Germany was seriously debated; while Russia many times sought sympathy from the Christian world on the ground that she was fighting the white man's battle against paganism.
By this success of the Nubians, Christianity was largely driven out of Upper Egypt; and about seventy years after the law of Thedosius L, by which paganism was supposed to be crushed, the religion of Isis and Serapis was again openly professed in the Thebaid, where it had perhaps always been cultivated in secret.
This view was corroborated by the dogma of the fallen angels, which was altogether alien to paganism. By identifying them with the evil spirits of the Bible, demon-names were even obtained which differed from those of the pagan gods and, of course, were the correct ones; were they not given in Holy Writ?
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