But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches.
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We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit.
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Birth: | 8th November, 1846 |
Death: | 31st March, 1894 |
Nationality: | Scottish |
Profession: | Editor, Scholar, Theologian |
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