Macpherson the Great Confederate Philosopher By Alfred C Hill
Macpherson the Great Confederate Philosopher By Alfred C Hill
Alfred C Hills
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The Confederate religion is a conglomeration of the faith of Moses and the intel lectual fables of Olympus, which have been handed down to us by the greatest poets of the earth. As the Jews believe they are the chosen people, and a cussed sight better than anybody else, so do the Confederates believe that they are the salt of the earth a position fully sustained by the large saline deposits near New Iberia. So far, then, our faith is founded on Moses and the Israelites generally ; but the rest ...of it corre- 96 THE MACPHEKSON LETTERS. spends pretty faithfully with the pagan religion, except that ours surpasses the pagan in the magnificent splen dor of its fables. Let me illustrate this point to your ignorance-besotted mind. Ancient Troy was a village about half the size of Algiers, arid the siege of the place was a series of fist-encounters between Ajax, Ileenan, Priam, and other prize-fighters. But Homer has converted his pugilists into demigods, and has in troduced nearly all the gods of heaven, earth, and hell as interested spectators, or active co-operationists.
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