sufl&ce to effect things, until several peoples concluded that 

 a single deity would prove adequate. Thus we note that the 

 ancient Egyptians and Greeks had numerous gods: the 

 Chinese still hold this view today. But by the time of the 

 early Hebrews, one god (Jehovah) was accepted by these 

 people, while the Christians adopted this same view in their 

 God: (although the Christians concluded that their founder, 

 Christ, also possessed godlike characteristics). The Hindus 

 had many gods, but Brahma was regarded as the actual 

 creator of the Universe, although quite beyond the reach 

 of human beings. Buddhists were advocated by Buddha 

 himself to rely only on their own intelligences in attaining 

 their ends, and he set forth those principles of successful 

 life which he himself had discovered. But his followers later 

 deified him against his wishes, Buddha never having claimed 

 in life to have deific attributes; (in contrast to Christ who 

 declared himself to possess a relation to God). Buddha 

 still accepted the existence of Brahma as the creator of the 

 Universe. The great Chinese philosopher Confucius was 

 more concerned with human behavior in life than with any 

 afterlife. But he thought the worship of ones ancestors neces- 

 sary as well as conformation to moral rules, evidently be- 

 cause the dead were supposed to possess superhuman powers 

 which could aid their living descendants. While Muhammed 

 accepted but a single god (Allah), and claimed only pro- 

 phetic powers for himself. 



Nature is complicated in her (a deification here again, 

 which has become a convention) phenomena, far too 

 complex for us to understand by pure thought alone, and 

 many great thinkers have failed essentially to do so in this 

 way. Until the advent of experimental science gave us a 

 means of obtaining correct answers to some of our many 

 questions about natural events, men were thus more or less 



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