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the places venerated by Laplanders*, and the chap. 
idols worshipped by the Chinese^; in short, in 
every country of the earth where uncultivated 
man is found. Fear, the parent of Superstition, 
has pointed out objects of adoration, or multi- 
plied articles of faith. The state of human 
intellect is not less degraded among Christians of 
the Holy Land, making prostrations and proces- 
sions before stocks and roots^, than among the for- 
lorn worshippers of Thar, the loggerheaded idol of 
Northern nations ^ Such superstitions disgraced 
(4) " Loca quae Lapponibus sancta erant et religiosa, singulari 
quddam et inusilatd fvrmd etfigUrd a reliquis distinguebantur." 
Leniii Comment, de Lapfon. i^'c. p. 442. Hafn. 1161, 
(5) " In Cuchiung, near to Hangam, there is a great stone, &c. 
which they cover yearly quite over with gold, and then worship it." 
NieuJioff's Dutch Embassy to China, englished hy Ogilhy, p. 224. 
Lond. IG69. 
(6) See the account given by Quaresmius of a Lusus Naturce found 
near Jerusalem., to which miraculous powers were ascribed in healing 
diseases. Also the engraving " Crucifixi ex Lilii radice, prodigiosa 
BT NOVA IMAGO." The representation really excites horror. Speaking 
of it, he says, " Mirahilis est virtutis et efficacia : illo et enim aqua bene- 
dicitur, quce etiam post annum, etsi inparvovase recondifa, incorruptaac 
velut recens e fonte hausta invenitur : febricitantibtis /elicUer propinatur, 
qui et sunilatis inde benejicium consequuntur. Ad eum (i. e. possessorem) 
habentur staliones etprocessiones, et in quibusvis ajffiictionum tt Iribulatio- 
num necessitatibus, pos Deum, ad illmn confiuunt fideles , ut ab omni animi 
et corporis advtrsi/ale Uberari, et necessariis bonis ditari mtreantur." 
Elucidat. T. S. lib. iv. c. 10. torn. II. p. 18. Antv. 1639. 
(7) Thor, or * the Thunderer,' of Northern nations, (See Ferstegan's 
* Restitution of Decayed Intelligence; p. 75. Lond. 1628.) from whom 
our Thor's Dav, or Thursday, is derived, is always an image of 
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