William Robertson Smith - This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force o...

William Robertson Smith Zitate

This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost.

William Robertson Smith

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Man kann sagen, dies ist nicht mehr als eine Hypothese ... nur von jener Präzedenzkraft, die zu allen Zeiten so stark gewesen ist, um religiöse Formen am Leben zu erhalten, deren ursprüngliche Bedeutung verloren geht.

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