Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . he philosopher Lucretius, who in his scornof the existing system concealed not his hatredof all the deities and myths. 101 In the formatimi of X\\\< ?cliocil of -kipti- CIMU It Itdllll tlu (ln( tlllll - lii ] I K I I I - w. 1. till imm-
Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . he philosopher Lucretius, who in his scornof the existing system concealed not his hatredof all the deities and myths. 101 In the formatimi of X\\\< ?cliocil of -kipti- CIMU It Itdllll tlu (ln( tlllll - lii ] I K I I I - w. 1. till imm- ti ulitinii ..I till iM~t \M 1. - .imuli tnlh wluili HI ui iiii_lit?\\oll K|ect witti jiiotit Iht -piiit~ ut nil 11shoiilil be ciuimiintiil Iniiii Ilii Tlu lu In tin I hieiiidn ot l« li ~~ « ,- i„i|,i, ll,|.i>nii>.demuiikil 1,11 mil 1,1111 tml. II ipimi, . 1 m iimu |. iml tli it tinspiiit tlllll till nil mil li 11aDiI tlu tin ilMoin m pn imln 1 In-t. illtill- till 1 1111 UI -\-tiiii ^^ollM in-titiiti i. ^^ ot the iJiimhnjc iteb The man of fa^iliion m the ImpLual (1\U aftccttdthis t^pe of ^keptici-m a» an eMiltute of lll^cultuie mil hi- tliim ti. 1 illi il i tliinki 1 B> the-t tnuntei I uiii lit- in tin n ot the Roman- the people weie ,\\ to difieieut quaiteis of the hoiizonCultiue anil tilth p 11 ted compau\ TIk enli_liti ntil iin n of Rome c ime to lookupon the othce- ot the old time leligion a-,mere vestiges of an extinct world. Theymocked at sacrifices and turned their wit uponthe augurs. They characterized the doctrinesof the past as imposition and falsehood, andwere tolerant of any form of religious beliefonly to the extent of regarding it as a polit-ical necessity for the control of a vulgar pop-ulace. For this reason the Roman skepticsconfined their resistance to the established be-lief to private animadversions and satire, whilepublicly ass
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