This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...Rome there were vestal virgins, in Persia Sun Priestesses who did not marry, and in India and Tibet there are similar examples.5 But unlike Christian celibacy, these instances of celibacy were of no importance whatever as regards the question of numbers. The religious celibates never formed more than an insignificant ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...Rome there were vestal virgins, in Persia Sun Priestesses who did not marry, and in India and Tibet there are similar examples.5 But unlike Christian celibacy, these instances of celibacy were of no importance whatever as regards the question of numbers. The religious celibates never formed more than an insignificant fraction of the whole population. In general, as we shall see later, marriage was strongly encouraged by religions other than Christianity for the mass of mankind. The one other important exception would seem to be Buddhism, which not only forbade marriage to the sacerdotal caste, but discouraged marriage among all those who would attain to wisdom. It would appear, however, that celibacy, though possibly widespread in the earlier days of Buddhism, soon ceased to be practised except by a small proportion of the adherents of Buddha. 'It is said that in Nepal, under the modern Gurkha rule, the celibate occupies a lower position than the married monk, to whom the services in the temples are committed. It is said, too, that the Lamas of Sikkim and other northern countries constantly have children living with them, though they do not admit them to be their own. Yet for all that celibacy is the rule, and, nominally at any rate, the great majority of Lamistic monks in Western Asia are unmarried coenobites, who live together in monasteries.' 1 1 Wattal, Population Problem, p. 20. - Ibid., p. 21. Balls, Egypt, p. 224. For Chinese Tibet see Wilson, Abode of Snow, p. 193. See Rubin, J. R. S. 8., vol. lxiii, p. 610. - Wattal, loc. cit., p. 20. 1 Westermarck, Moral Ideas, vol. ii, p. 403. See on this subject Schomann, Griechische Allerth&mer, vol. i, p. 271, and Plutarch, Lycurgus, p. 15. Mac donell, loc. cit., p. 369. 'Mviller, Das Seruelle Le...
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Owner embossed stamp and inked names inside front page. Ink underlining several pages. Binding cracked inside front page. Back cover rubbed spot. 516 p. Includes: index, bibliography.
