Page 137 A PHILOSOPHIC MISSIONARY - DION CHRYSOSTOM and often hold out their hands to their absent
parents in sleep ; and so do men to the gods. They rightly love
these beneficent kinsmen, and are eager for any kind of close association
with them. So many savage people, whose artistic resources are
poor, give the name of God to mountains, inert trees, and shapeless
stones. Page 138 A PHILOSOPHIC MISSIONARY - DION CHRYSOSTOM and magnanimity represent the God of Property
and the Crops : for he looks like one who gives and lavishly bestows
good things. I represented all these qualities as best I could,
since I was unable to express them in words. But my art could not
show him letting loose lightning after lightning, wars or destruction
of hosts or floods or violent hail or snow, or sending to Greeks
or foreign peoples dread strife, which inspires an undying passion
for battle and war in weary and fainting men. And if I had been
able, I should never have wished to do it.' |
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