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tions, only survivals. This fact sent thinkers like 

 Hobbes, and dealers in literary antiquities of the type 

 of Burton, Bishop Newton, and, notablest of all, 

 Conyers Middleton, on the search after parallels, 

 which have received astonishing confirmation in our 

 day. Burton sees the mimicry of the " arch-deceiver 

 in the strange sacraments, the priests, and the sacri- 

 fices," as the Romanist missionaries to Tibet saw 

 the same diabolical parody of their rites in Buddhist 

 temples. But Hobbes, with the sagacity which might 

 be expected of him, recognises the continuity of 

 ideas : " mutato nomine tantum; Venus and Cupid 

 (Hobbes might have added Isis and Horus) appear- 

 ing as 'the Virgin Mary and her Sonne,' and the 

 Awo^eWis of the Heathen surviving in the Canon- 

 ization of Saints. The carrying of the Popes ' by 

 Switzers under a Canopie ' is a ' Relique of the Di- 

 vine Honours given to Caesar'; the carriage of 

 Images in Procession ' a Relique of the Greeks and 

 Romans.' . . . ' The Heathen had also their Aqua 

 Lustralis, that is to say. Holy Water. The Church 

 of Rome imitates them also in their Holy Dayes. 

 They had their Bacchanalia, and we have our Wakes 

 answering to them; They their Saturnalia, and we 

 our Carnevalls and Shrove-tuesdays liberty of Serv- 

 ants; They their Procession of Priapus, we our 

 fetching-in, erection, and dancing about May-Poles; 

 and Dancing is one kind of worship ; They had their 

 Procession called Ambarvalia, and we our Procession 

 about the Fields in the Rogation week.' " 



