[274] Ibid. Which latter word we cannot accept unless that “primordial form” is conceded to be the primal concrete form that spirit assumed as the revealed Deity.
[275] Ibid., p. 488.
[276] Lecture by T. H. Huxley, F. R. S.: “Darwin and Haeckel.”
[277] “Migration of Abraham,” § 32.
[278] Cory: “Ancient Fragments.”
[279] “Origin of Species,” pp. 448, 489, first edition.
[280] Huxley: “Darwin and Haeckel.”
[281] Mithras was regarded among the Persians as the Theos ek petros—god of the rock.
[282] Bordj is called a fire-mountain—a volcano; therefore it contains fire, rock, earth, and water—the male and active, and the female or passive elements. The myth is suggestive.
[283] Virgil: “Georgica,” book ii.