. 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. ples, yet the Semites of antiquity seemedto have a sufficient multiplicity to placethem on the same level with other this was only in seeming. TheSemites of antiquity instead of worship-ing many gods, rather wor- . ^ ^ True significa- shiped the
. 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. ples, yet the Semites of antiquity seemedto have a sufficient multiplicity to placethem on the same level with other this was only in seeming. TheSemites of antiquity instead of worship-ing many gods, rather wor- . ^ ^ True significa- shiped the One under viauy tion of Semitic mi • 4. polytheism. names. i here is a vastdiff^erence between assigning to the oneGod many names and the division of thedeity into many gods. It is more thanprobable that the deity representedamong the Canaanitish nations by thenames of Baiil, Dagon, Nebo, Moloch,Rimmon, Ashtaroth, Nergal, etc., wasone in the original concept of the an-cestors of that race. These names ap-pear to have represented certain attri-butes of deity, which attributes mightall proceed from one God—not frommany. It is in this light that the poly-theistic phraseology of the Chaldees,Assyrians, and Babylonians is, for themost part, to be interpreted. Very different from this, however,was the polytheism of the Hindus,Greeks, a
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