The Belief in Immortality on Purely Logical Principles. E-book. Formato PDF Joseph B. Gross   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

According to orthodox creeds and a commonly entertained prejudice, the vastly greater part Of mankind, have never been blessed with what is technically termed a Revelation, and it is, hence, generally believed that the heathensfiz the peoples who are unprovided with a supernatural revela tion, can know nothing that is reliable Of a future life, and that, accordingly, they must either pine in dreary hopelessness, or. Fret In blank despair! Such — I am bold to say, is far from being the case. For the heathens possess a source Of knowledge inherent in human nature, Which — In a manner Similar to the revelation claimed for the Bible, isdesigned at once to guide our present, and to foreshadow: if not actually demonstrate, our future life.

The Heathen Religion: In Its Popular and Symbolical Development. E-book. Formato PDF Joseph B. Gross   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Perhaps on no subject within the ample range of human knowledge, have so many fallacious ideas been propagated as upon that Of the gods and the worship Of heathen antiquity. Nothing but a shameful ignorance, a pitiable prejudice, or the most contemptible pride, which denounces all investigations as a useless or a criminal labor, when it must be feared that they will.