. Babel and Bible;. Fig. 96. Emblem of Marduk. Fig. 97. Emblem of Ea. spring—in other words, becomes simply poetry. And asthe Babylonians were taught by constant observation ofthe sky to recognise the eternal laws of the gods in thecourses of the stars and their constellations, so theythought to discover indications of the divine presencein every earthly thing, in great things and in small—and even in the very smallest, as the flight of the Babylonians prove to be seekers after God,yes, the most inquiring spirits among them even gavethemselves up entirely to the search after God. C
. Babel and Bible;. Fig. 96. Emblem of Marduk. Fig. 97. Emblem of Ea. spring—in other words, becomes simply poetry. And asthe Babylonians were taught by constant observation ofthe sky to recognise the eternal laws of the gods in thecourses of the stars and their constellations, so theythought to discover indications of the divine presencein every earthly thing, in great things and in small—and even in the very smallest, as the flight of the Babylonians prove to be seekers after God,yes, the most inquiring spirits among them even gavethemselves up entirely to the search after God. Countless traces point to the fact that like the philos-ophers of Greece and Rome, the deeper thinkers of Bab- 220 BABEL AND BIBLE. ylonia divined the ideal unity of the godhead behind themultiplicity of their individual Yet I may notcarry out the proofs of this to completion, at least notwith the purpose of comparing the Babylonian God-con-ception with Semitic monotheism. In this particular,Babel and Bibl
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