Christianity

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Excerpt from Christianity: And Its Relations to Poetry and PhilosophyThe worship of a Spirit of Power, of whom the visible creation is the outbirth, has its source in the solemn instincts and deepest wants of mankind. The mystery of Life and Death pressed, with a weight of awe, upon the minds of the earliest men. They moved amidst unexplained facts, and won drous in¿uences. The wide earth, teeming with a varied and mighty vitality, and overarched by the soaring firmament, bore the traces of a great invisible Power. The vastness of Infinity, preg nant with portent and mystery, struggled with the heart, and gave birth to wild curiosity and speen lation. The eager efforts of the mind, to solve the problem of existence, ended in the mythological systems of antiquity, which hang on the horizon of tradition, like vast, motionless clouds, in the gray twilight of morning, huge, dim, Shapeless, yet skirt ed with the re¿ected light oi the unrisen sun.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.