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Excerpt from Greek Religion to the Time of Hesiod The history of religion in England is in part the history of lost opportunities. Religion always has her gaze fixed in the heavens, but men blind her eyes, despoil her of her plumage, and chain her to a wain. Her aspiration is for unity, yet the fiercest of wars are fought ln her name; and when the opportunity for unity presents itself, then steal forth those who are ready in the name of religion to destroy it. Had the Act for uniting their Majesties' Protestant Subjects, known as the Comprehension Bill, introduced 1n the House of Lords 1689, been passed, there would have been less need for our two centuries of prayers and penitential confessions over our unhappy divisions. Religion desires the amelioration and exter mination of the causes of human suffering; yet had its endeavours been to that end when steam machinery displaced the hand - worker and the modern industrial system was created, there would to-day be less bitterness of class antagonism. This brief work is an endeavour to set forth some of the elements of early Greek religion, the aspirations that broke through them, and the failures that attended them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.