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use of very natural means , of a better and more correct Scale by which the people were tp estimate their Deity . S . 35 . Instead of comparing him , as ' they had hitherto done , only with the wretched idols of the little nei ghbouring tribes ^ \ vith whom they had lived in constant jealousy ; they began , daring their captivity under the wise Persians , to compare him with the Bein ^ of all beings as acknowledged and revered bv a iljore exercised understanding :. S . 36 , Revelation had led the way to reason , and reasoq now enlightened revelation .
S . : 61 . This was the first reciprocal service which they rendered each other ; and this mutual influence is so little unbecoming the author of both ; , that without it one of them would be superfluous . S . 38 . The child which was thus sent abroad saw other children who knew more than he did , who lived in greater profu * sion , and he asked himself ., being ashamed ^ Why do I no \ lenow this too ? Why do I pot live so too ? Could 1 not also have been taught this in my father ' s house ? Ought it not to Lave been pressed on me ? He then turned to his elementary books , which were become an object of disgust to him , in order to throw the fault upon them—when , lo ! he found that the fault did not lie in the books but in himself alone , why he had not long known the same and lived in the same way . S . 39 . As the jews now , occasioned by the pure Persian doctrine , recognised in their Jehovah , not merely the greatest of all national gods , but God himself ; and as they could now so rruich the more easily find him in the Holy Writings ( which were on this occasion brought forward to notice again ) , an ^ shew him to others as he really was described in them ; and as they had a no less horror of all visible representations of the Deuv ( or at least were commanded in those writings to have
such a horror ) , than the Persians themselves had ; it is no wonder thai a religious service found favour in the eyes of Cyrus , which he considered , though far below pure sabeisrn , yet as far anove the coarse idolatry which had supplied its p lace in tne abandoned land of the Tews .
ii . " iO . Thus they returned , enlig htened concerning their own unknown treasures , and became an altogether different peop le , whose first cue it was to niake this newly-acquired light permanent among them ; and there was soon no further iear oi idolatry or apostacy ; for it is easy to desert a national god , hut impossible to ' abandon The One God as soon as he rt known . S . 41 . The theologians have attempted in various ways to
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A \ % The Education of the Human Race .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1806, page 418, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1727/page/26/
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