[250-1] H. L. Liddon, Canon of St. Paul’s. Some Elements of Religion, p. 84.
[251-1] The Chevalier Bunsen completed the moral estimate of the one-man-power, thus acknowledged by Machiavelli, in these words: “Alles Grosse geht aus vom Einzelnen, aber nur in dem Masse, als dieser das Ich dem Ganzen opfert.” Gott in der Geschichte, Bd. I., s. 38.
[252-1] W. von Humboldt, Ideen zu einem Vorsuch, die Gränzen der Wirksamkeit des Staats zu bestimmen, Breslau, 1851. Auguste Comte, Système de Politique Positive, Paris, 1851-4. The former was written many years before its publication.
[256-1] Lectures on Metaphysics, Vol. I., p. 23.
[256-2] The Koran, Suras xi., xvi.
[258-1] The Myths of the New World, Chap. IX.
[259-1] Jacob Grimm quite overlooked this important element in the religion of the ancient Germans. It is ably set forth by Adolf Holtzmann, Deutsche Mythologie, s. 196 sqq. (Leipzig, 1874).
[260-1] The seemingly heartless reply he made to one of his disciples, who asked permission to perform the funeral rites at his father’s grave: “Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead,” is an obvious condemnation of one of the most widespread superstitions of the ancient world. So, according to an ingenious suggestion of Lord Herbert of Cherbury, was the fifth commandment of Moses: “Ne parentum seriem tanquam primam aliquam causam suspicerent homines, et proinde cultum aliquem Divinum illis deferrent, qualem ex honore parentum sperare liceat benedictionem, docuit.” De Veritate, p. 231.
Herbert Spencer in his Essay on the Origin of Animal Worship, calls ancestral worship “the universal first form of religious belief.” This is very far from correct, but it is easy to see how a hasty thinker would be led into the error by the prominence of the ancient funereal ceremonies.
[262-1] Dhammapada, 21.