Slavonians to the other Indo-European Nations, 25 
Vulgate, of 8 words for this passage, there is only one decided 
Slavonic root, and that common to English. In the Greek, out 
of 10 distinct words, 3 are of Slavonic roots. If we admit repeated 
words, out of the 25 English words, which compose the 2 sentences 
23 are of Slavonic roots. 
B. After Language, Keligious Belief is the second criterion of 
Nationality. Of the Slavonic Mythology little is known, but that 
little is strikingly similar to the superstitions of Western Europe. 
The same deification of Strength in Man, and Beauty in "Woman, 
adoration of Fire and Thunder, as emblems of the Deity, are recorded 
by antiquarians. To these were added a worship of the Plough, as 
the instrument of God's mercy, and of the Winds, the idols having 
sometimes four faces, looking to the Cardinal points. In the name 
of the Slavonic Goddess of Beauty, Lada, we may detect the 
derivation of the English word " Lady,'' 
I, Certain records only begin with Christianity. The story of 
St. Cyril has been often told.- After converting Mora\ia, he and 
his brother Methodius composed out of Greek, Coptic, and Armenian 
characters the Cyrillic alphabet, which became the hieroglyphic of 
the Russo-Greek clergy. To this day the Mass of the Russian 
Church is read in this language, which has become the parent of all 
the East- Slavonic dialects. The Cyrillic has been declared the 
most unchangeable of Slavonic tongues, 
The Moravian Church for more than two centuries maintained her 
language, rites, and discipline independent of the See of Rome. 
Service was performed, and the Bible read in the vulgar tongue, 
marriage freely allowed to the clergy, the communion administered 
in both kinds to the laity. With our Brito-Keltic the Moravian last 
of the Western Churches defied Rome, The adjacent Slavonians 
deserted their idols. Bohemians, Bulgarians, Servians, Poles, 
* Vida Milmans's " Latin Christianity." 
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