The Chinese On the Plain of Shinar Or a Connection Established Between the Chin
The Chinese On the Plain of Shinar Or a Connection Established Between the Chin
Thomas Macclatchie
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" — Faber's Origin of Pag. Idol. , vol. I. , p. 60. The fact of the common origin of all the Pagan systems being thus established, the next difiiculty is to discover this source of idolatry. Can we suppose that subsequent to the dispersion, and their several settlements, all the other nations adopted the system framed by one 1 Here we are met by two difiiculties ; first, those who adopt this theory difl"er considerably as to what nation formed the model for imitation to the rest. Some say Egypt..., some Phenicia, some India, and some Hindostan. All is uncertainty. And even if this point were set at rest, then comes the difficult task of accounting "for the extraordinary circumstance, that all nations upon the face of the earth, whether seated in Europe or Asia, or in Africa, or in America, should have been content to borrow with rare unanimity, the religious system of one single people. "^ — Ibid. P. 62. Nor can we adopt the hypothesis, based upon the supposition that the children of Cush and a few followers, were ah)ne concerned in the apostasy of Babel, that all nations, after their settlement, were con- quered by this roving tribe, and were compelled to adopt its idolatrous system.
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