Re: Books I\'ve read, bought, or might read
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However, I'm still slogging through The Decline and Fall of the Rome Empire by Gibbon, a very good human comedy, replete with human foibles and imbecilities, and also spiced with marvelous insights by the author. For example:
"The religious system of the Germans (if the wild opinions of savages can deserve that name) was dictated by their wants, their fears, and their ignorance. They adored the great visible objects of nature, the Sun and the Moon, the Fire and the Earth; together with those imaginary deities, who were supposed to preside over the most important occupations of human life. They were persuaded that, by some ridiculous arts of divination, they could discover the will of the superior beings, and that human sacrifices were the most precious and acceptable offering to their altars."
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Zeno,
Have you read Frazer's classic, The Golden Bough? It's a book that you might enjoy dipping in to.
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