Marius the Epicurean, Vol. 1: His Sensations and Ideas (Classic Reprint)
By Walter Pater.
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Excerpt from Marius the Epicurean, Vol. 1: His Sensations and IdeasAs, in the triumph of Christianity, the old religion lingered latest in the country, and died out at last as but paganism - the religion of the villagers, before the advance of the Christian Church; so, in an earlier century, it was in places remote from town-life that the older and purer forms of paganism itself had survived the longest. While, in Rome, new religions had arisen with bewildering complexity around the dying old one, the earlier and simpler patriarchal religion, "the religion of Numa," as people love...
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1330530101, 9781330530108
