Excerpt from The Later Platonist The religious rites and beliefs were also set forth as pertaining to a common principle, and only at fault as having been adulterated with foreign and incongru ous elements. He taught, says Mosheim, that the religion of the multitude went hand in hand with Philosophy, and with her had shared the fate of being by degrees corrupted and obscured by human con ceits, superstition and lies; that it ought therefore to be brought back to its original purity by purging it of this dross and ...
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Excerpt from The Later Platonist The religious rites and beliefs were also set forth as pertaining to a common principle, and only at fault as having been adulterated with foreign and incongru ous elements. He taught, says Mosheim, that the religion of the multitude went hand in hand with Philosophy, and with her had shared the fate of being by degrees corrupted and obscured by human con ceits, superstition and lies; that it ought therefore to be brought back to its original purity by purging it of this dross and expounding it upon philosophical prin ciples; and that the whole purpose which Christ had in view was to reinstate and restore to its primitive integrity the Wisdom of the ancients - to reduce within bounds the universally-prevailing dominion of superstition - and in part to correct and in part to ex terminate the various errors that had found their way into the different popular religions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This 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.
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