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indeed perhaps be matter of doubt whether, in the earlier 

 ■ftages of fociety, the human form would not be the laft of 

 all others to be worfhlpped. Independency of man on man 

 is the conftant and peculiar attribute of the favage ftate, and 

 men would not be apt to love, flill lefs to venerate and wor- 

 fhip, thofe fellow-creatures with whom they deemed themfelvcs 

 on a perfe<5l equality, and from whom they were in continual 

 dread of hoflility. Nor, on the other hand, would they 

 chufe to confefs that they feared them ; and, upon thefe prin-- 

 ciplea, they would no doubt wifh to annex the ideas of fupe- 

 riority, love, awe and worfliip, to any thing rather than to one 

 of their own fpecies. Neither even in the fccond ftage of 

 fociety, when the hordes of favages had deemed it neceffary 

 in fome degree to depart from their native rights by chufing 

 from among themfelves a commander, would fuch precarious 



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true, but is much too bold for me to rely on in corroboration of my idea. It may alfo poflibly 

 be faid that the word naxriTm miy fignify that Dffidalus had compofed the dance for Ariadne, 

 rather than that he had executed a reprefentation of it in carving, and confequently that he was 

 rather a maitre de ballet than a carver ; but as Paufanias, a tolerable judge, has evidently taken 

 the word in the latter fenfe, I muft confefs myfelf decided by his opinion, and admit that 

 Dxdalus the Athenian made carved woiks. 



With regard, however, to the Juno of Samos, the poet Callimachus, as quoted by Eofebius in 

 his Evangelical Preparation, fays that it was the work of Celmis,' one of the Idasi Daftyli, who 

 firft taught the ufe of iron, and adds, that before his time the art of ftiituary was unknown, and 

 that Juno had been previouQy reprefented by a rough plank or piece of wood, ti^nf, as alfo was 

 the Minerva confecrated by Danaus, in the city of Mindus. — This laft circumftance I mention 

 as it ferves to corroborate what I have faid in the text concerning the very ancient manner of 

 reprefeming the Gods. I have there endeavoured to (hew, that the earlier idols were no other 

 than ftones roughly hewn, and here we find the divinities ftill farther debafed when reprefented 

 by planks or blocks of wood. 



