The god can no more exist without his people than the nation without its god.

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• William Robertson Smith:

  The god, it would appear, was frequently thought of as the physical progenitor or first father of h

• William Robertson Smith:

  The land of a god corresponds with the land of his worshipers.

• William Robertson Smith:

  The myths connected with individual sanctuaries and ceremonies were merely part of the apparatus of

• William Robertson Smith:

  This being so, it follows that mythology ought not to take the prominent place that is too often as

• William Robertson Smith:

  This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all

• William Robertson Smith:

  Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation

• William Robertson Smith:

  We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can har

• Richard Cecil:

  The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

• Richard Cecil:

  Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the

• Richard Cecil:

  Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.