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cannot deny the habitual effect of this manifes- 

 tation. 



Praeterea coeli rationes ordine certo 

 Et varia annorum cernebant tempora vorti ; 

 Nee poterant quibus id fieret cognoscere caussis. 

 Ergo perfugium sibi habebant omnia Divis 

 Tradere et illorum nutu facere omnia flecti. 



LUCRET. v. 1182. 



They saw the skies in constant order run, 



The varied seasons and the circling sun, 



Apparent rule, with unapparent cause, 



And thus they sought in Gods the source of laws. 



The same feeling may be traced in the early 

 mythology of a large portion of the globe. We 

 might easily, taking advantage of the labours of 

 learned men, exemplify this in the case of the 

 oriental nations of Greece, and of many other 

 countries. Nor does there appear much difficulty 

 in pointing out the error of those who have main- 

 tained that all religion had its origin in the 

 worship of the stars and the elements ; and who 

 have insinuated that all such impressions are 

 unfounded, inasmuch as these are certainly not 

 right objects of human worship. The religious 

 feeling, the conviction of a supernatural power 

 of an intelligence connecting and directing the 

 phenomena of the world, had not its origin in 

 the worship of sun, or stars, or elements; but 

 was itself the necessary though unexpressed 

 foundation of all worship, and all forms of false, 



