Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . likely to make a Iranian religiondistinct and lasting image, foreran i. development. In the present case wehave dwelt at some length upon that OldIranian faith which had Ahura-Mazdaofor its supreme spirit and the Zoroas-trian Bible for its apocalypse. We havedone so for the reason that this systemof belief and practice was a fundamentalelement, if not indeed the very life, ofIranic development and ris
Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . likely to make a Iranian religiondistinct and lasting image, foreran i. development. In the present case wehave dwelt at some length upon that OldIranian faith which had Ahura-Mazdaofor its supreme spirit and the Zoroas-trian Bible for its apocalypse. We havedone so for the reason that this systemof belief and practice was a fundamentalelement, if not indeed the very life, ofIranic development and rising institutions of the race tookform and fashion from the religioussystem of Zarathustra. (3ne of thestrongest forces by which the impulsesof the nomadic life were held back andfinally bound down to the pastoral andagricultural career, by which the set-tled tribes gradually became predomi-nant over the hunters, and by which in-stitutional forms took the place of meretribal chaos, was the unity of religiousbeliefs and practices common not onlyto the Iranians themselves, but also totheir kinsmen in India. Chaf-ter XXXIV.—Sex amd NIarriaoe A]\/eono the T will now be of inter-est to say somethingof the relations of manand woman among theforefathers of the In-do - European perpetuity and,indeed, the very existence of the humanfamily depends upon the fact of sex inthe species. The complete mankind isdivided into two parts, the man and thewoman. By a beautiful coordination,and perhaps what may be called a nat- ural division of labor, the procreationand the bearing of offspring are dividedas might be a piece of work importance ofin economics. The duty of ^^.^r^,,perpetuating the race is history,separated into parts and given to two in-stead of to one. In this respect man-kind share in the general analogies ofnature. Nearly all animals and plantsreproduce by sex. In some cases thewhole procreative act is accomplished ina single individual of the species, but,as a r
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