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At the head of the hall sat the archbishop in his dark robes, with his heavy gold chain about his neck a figure and a countenance in all things spiritual, gracious, and reverend. There is small difference, I believe, between the creeds of the Armenians and the Roman Catholics, but a very great disparity in the looks of the two priesthoods, which is all in favor of the former.
And their followers, the masses, were doubtless in earnest. A great principle the relation of man to his Maker and his condition in a future world as laid down by rival priesthoods has in almost every stage of history had power to influence the multitude to fury and to deluge the world in blood.
It was recorded, at any rate, that all the rest save those mentioned should be allowed to return under a general amnesty and with a right to a quarter of their confiscated property; that tribuneships, praetorships and priesthoods should be given to some of them immediately; that Sextus himself should be chosen consul and be appointed augur, should obtain seventeen hundred and fifty myriads of denarii from his paternal estate, and should govern Sicily, Sardinia and Achaea for five years, not receiving deserters nor acquiring more ships nor keeping any garrisons in Italy, but bending his efforts to secure peace on the sea for the peninsula, and sending a stated amount of grain to the people of the City.
It was not till he had resided some considerable time in the East, and acquired a familiar knowledge of its current languages and the social habits of its various populations, that he became acquainted with men in whom he recognized earnest cultivators of the lore which tradition ascribes to the colleges and priesthoods of the ancient world, men generally living remote from others, and seldom to be bribed by money to exhibit their marvels or divulge their secrets.
I am not superstitious, but I must confess that she has more than once assisted me materially in my magistracy with her advice. Her priests are so pious, too! none of your gay, none of your proud, ministers of Jupiter and Fortune: they walk barefoot, eat no meat, and pass the greater part of the night in solitary devotion! 'An example to our other priesthoods, indeed!
Now that the old Roman gods had been changed into new-fangled Greek gods, and the old Roman priesthoods into modern political clubs, it is little wonder that the religion of the fathers ceased to satisfy their descendants.
Nor is it found that non-established priesthoods are much more disposed to emancipate 'mind' and oil the wheels of political progression than those kept in state pay. The air of conventicles is not of the freest or most bracing description.
As to the adjustment of the senatorial list undoubtedly the enactment of the Ovinian -plebiscitum- exercised a material share of influence that the censors should admit to the senate "the best men out of all classes." II. III. The Burgess-Body. Its Composition II. III. Complete Opening Up of Magistracies and Priesthoods II. III. Restrictions as to the Accumulation and the Reoccupation of Offices
The exclusion of the plebeians from all public magistracies and public priesthoods while they were admissible to the position of officers and senators and the maintenance, with perverse obstinacy, of the legal impossibility of marriage between old burgesses and plebeians, further impressed on the patriciate from the outset the stamp of an exclusive and wrongly privileged aristocracy.
A very interesting proof and one that has never been properly exposed of the astoundingly rationalistic principles on which the Chinese polity is founded is to be seen in the position of priesthoods in China.
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