 And, in these four things, opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion towards what men fear, and taking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seed of 'religion,' which, by reason of the different fancies, judgments, and...  Introduction to the Literature of Europe: In the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and ... - Page 308by Henry Hallam - 1839Full view - About this book
 | Russell T. McCutcheon - Religion - 2003 - 346 pages
...was understood purely to be matter of personal preference: by reason of different fancies, judgments, and passions of several men, hath grown up into ceremonies...man, are for the most part ridiculous to another. (Partl.ch. 12 [90]) So religion - which, for Hobbes, had its origins in the belief in ghosts, our ignorance... | |
 | Jennifer Michael Hecht - Religion - 2010 - 578 pages
...and taking of things causal for prognostics," and from these errors, "different fancies, judgments, and passions of several men, hath grown up into ceremonies...used by one man, are for the most part ridiculous to another."17 Many people have believed Hobbes was an atheist and that when he made statements that left... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - History - 2005 - 404 pages
...prognostics, consisteth the natural seed of religion, which, by reason of the different fancies, judgements, and passions of several men, hath grown up into ceremonies...one man are for the most part ridiculous to another. 12. For these seeds have received culture from two sorts of men. One sort have been they that have... | |
 | Henry George Atkinson, Harriet Martineau - Hypnotism - 1851 - 420 pages
...prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion ; which, by reason of the different fancies, judgments, and passions of several men, hath grown up into ceremonies...man, are, for the most part, ridiculous to another." — Hobbes : Leviathan.* " But men foolishly think that Gods are born like as men are ; and have, too,... | |
 | John Oman - Knowledge, Theory of - 1931 - 532 pages
...Prognostiques, consisteth the natural seed of Religion; which by reason of the different Fancies, Judgments, and Passions of several men, hath grown up into ceremonies...used by one man, are for the most part ridiculous to another."1 Even the modern name of Animism for this very modern theory is not lacking, for he says... | |
 | Alfred Lyall - History - 2019 - 68 pages
...Natural Seed of Religion, which by reason of the different Fancies, Judgments, and Passions of severall men, hath grown up into ceremonies so different that...man are for the most part ridiculous to another." These words, quaint and stiff as they are, appear to me to cover most of the ground out of which polytheism... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1887 - 616 pages
...chiefly in fear and ignorance, which by reason of the different fancies, judgments, and passions of men, hath grown up into ceremonies so different, that...those which are used by one man are for the most part i * Part i. ch. 3. f Lucan, • Pharsalia,' lib. ix. v. 578. J ' Leviathan,' part iii. lidiculous to... | |
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