believe in no God? and that the proudest of mankind had rather bow down to wood and stone, than be without any deity at all? “What nation is there,” says Cicero, “or what race of men, which has not, without any previous instruction, some idea of the gods? Now that in which all men agree must necessarily be true.” “If you go through the earth,” says Plutarch, “you will perhaps observe cities without walls, without letters, sunk in the greatest ignorance; but we shall see not one which does not worship
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