Philosophical Dissertations On the Egyptians And Chinese, volume 2
Philosophical Dissertations On the Egyptians And Chinese, volume 2
Cornelius De Pauw, J. Thomson
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We fhall lee prelcntly, th^ this falfe and whimfical opinion was founded entirely on the fup^ pp^ed ^jmgcf of mal^ng innovations in the religbus * practices. Digitized by VjOOQ IC 9# . . PHILOSOPHICAL DISSERTATIONS • pradiccs', which had been received from the fayag^ of the conntry, or, as Plato ftyles them, the iudir genous iithabicants. The greater part of the religious ceremonies of tlie Egyptians came from the favages of Ethiopia, as Diodorufifays in the moft unequivocal manner J and the fa...ft is of a nature not to be doubted. Yet no perfon has hitherto ever undertaken to feek in Ethiopia the origin of a A^'oifliip, evidently invented tliere. Mr, Jablonlki was perfeftly capable of making fuch refearches, the refult of which would have been infinitely .more fatisfadory than the conjeftures he , has hazarded, and the contradictions he could not avoid* At the article Phtha^ he defcribes the Egyptians as atheifts, whofe fyftem refembled too.exaftly that of Spinofa, for any perfon to be deceived, who had the leaft penetration* At the article Cnephy or Cnupbis^ he changes the fame Egyptians into deifts, who admit of an in^elli^ gent Being diftinck from matter— the Sovereign of Nature.
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