This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1824 edition. Excerpt: ... strictly connected, said to him: --" You see that fortwo hours I have maintained a certain opinion with warmth: well, I assure you there is not one word of truth in all I have said!" The answer of a jesuit is also known, who was employed for twenty years in the Canada missions, and who himself not believing in a God, as he confessed in the ear of a friend, had faced death twenty times for the sake of a religion which he preached to the savages. This friend representing to him the inconsistency of his zeal, --"Ah! " replied the jesuit missionary, " you have no idea of the pleasure a man enjoys in making himself heard by twenty thousand men, and in persuading them of what he does not himself believe." It is frightful to observe how many abuses and disorders arise from the profound ignorance in which Europe has been so long plunged. Those monarchs who are at last sensible of the importance of enlightenment, become the benefactors of mankind in favouring the progress of knowledge, which is the foundation of the tranquillity and happiness of nations, and the finest bulwark against the inroads of fanaticism. ZOROASTER. If it is Zoroaster who first announced to mankind that fine maxim--" In the doubt whether an action be good or bad, abstain from it"--Zoroaster was the first of men after Confucius. If this beautiful lesson of morality is found only in the hundred gates of the Sadder, letusbless the author of the Sadder. There may be very ridiculous dogmas and rites united with an excellent morality. Who was this Zoroaster ? The name has something of Greek in it, and it is said he was a Mede. The Persees of the present day call him Zerdust, or Zerdast, or Zaradast, or Zarathrust. He is not reckoned to have been the first of the name. We are told...

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Excerpt from The Philosophical Dictionary for the Pocket: Written in French by a Society of Men of Letters, and Translated Into English From the Last Geneva Edition, Corrected by the Authors; With Notes, Containing a Refutation of Such Passages as Are Any Way Exceptionable in Regard to Religion Sr. Thomas, queftion 1 x 8, article 2, fays, That the thrones are as near to God as the cherubim and feraphim, becaufe it is on them that God firs. Sco ms has computed the angels to amount to a thou fand millions. The antient mythology of good and bad genii having fpread itfelf into Greece, and to on to Rome, it has there been fanftified, and to every man has been aliigned a good and evil an gel;one aflifling him, and the other annoying him, from his cradle to his coffin: but; whether thefe good and evil angels continually lhift ftations from one to another, or whether they are relieved by others of their order, is not yet known. Here upon St. Thomas's Summary of Divinity may be confulted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.