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Scientific and Religious Journal.

Vol. I.SEPTEMBER, 1880.No. 9.

THE DIVINITY OF OUR RELIGION AS CONCEDED BY ITS ENEMIES.

Voltaire says, "I am ever apprehensive of being mistaken; but allmonuments give me sufficient evidence that the polished nations ofantiquity acknowledged a supreme God. There is not a book, not a medal,not a bas-relief, not an inscription, in which Juno, Minerva, Neptune,Mars, or any of the other deities, is spoken of as a creating being, thesovereign of all nature.

"On the contrary, the most ancient profane books that we have—Hesiodand Homer—represent their Zeus as the only thunderer, the only masterof gods and men; he even punishes the other gods; he ties Juno with achain, and drives Apollo out of heaven.

"The ancient religion of the Brahmins explains itself in a sublimemanner, concerning the unity and power of God, in these words found inthe 2d chapter of the Shastah, 'The Eternal, absorbed in thecontemplation of his own existence, resolved, in the fullness of time,to communicate his glory and his essence to beings capable of feelingand partaking his beatitude, as well as of contributing to his

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