| The Principles of Sociology Volume 1; V. 6; V. 1884 Contributor(s): Spencer, Herbert (Author) |
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ISBN: 1152694731 ISBN-13: 9781152694736 Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com OUR PRICE: $37.51 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2012 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| Publisher Description: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ...implied in Hesiod--conquests such as must certainly have been going on, and must certainly have left exaggerated narratives. So, too, with "the sons of god and the daughters of men" in the Hebrew story. When we remember the reprobation that has everywhere been visited on the intermarriaere of a conquering caste and a subject caste--when we remember that in. Greek belief it was a transgression for the race of gods to fall in love with the race of men--when we remember that in our own feudal times union of nobles with serfs was a crime; we shall have little difficulty in seeing how there originated the story of the fall of the angels. Any one who, after considering this evidence, remembers that from the names and natures ascribed by existing savage peoples to Europeans, legends of "gods and men" are even now arising, will, I think, scarcely hesitate. Kemaining doubt will be further diminished by reading the legend of the Quiches, which gives, with sufficient clearness, the story of an invading race who, seizing an elevated region, and holding in terror the natives of the lower lands, became the deities of the surrounding country, and their mountain residence the local Olympus. (See Appendix A.) 201. This brings us once more to the Aryan gods, as seen from another point of view. That we may judge which hypothesis best fits the facts, let us first observe how the early Greeks actually conceived their gods: ignoring wholly the question how they got their conceptions. And let us compare their pantheon with the pantheon of another race--say that of the Fijians. The Greek god is everywhere presented to us under the guise of a powerful man; as is the Fijian. Among the Fijians, gods "sometimes assume the human form, ... |