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University Lectures Delivered by Members of the Faculty in the Free Public Lecture Course (Volume 1)

University Lectures Delivered by Members of the Faculty in the Free Public Lecture Course (Volume 1)

Pennsylvania University

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1150196912
ISBN13: 9781150196911
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.42 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915. Excerpt: ... HEBREW AND BABYLONIAN VIEWS OF CREATION By Morris Jastrow, Jr. Professor of Semitic Languages, University of Pennsylvania The desire to trace things to their origin is so strong in man as to suggest the possibility of its being a deeply ingrained instinct. From the child's curiosity to see the wheels go round to the question, what makes them go round? is merely a step, and from this, again, to who makes the wheels? another step, and not a very large one. Curiosity is, indeed, the beginning of wisdom, and the most modern and most advanced scientific spirit is merely curiosity, plus the application of a proper method to satisfy it. Creation stories abound everywhere among people in a primitive state of culture, the stage of naive curiosity, and from this stage they are carried over to the higher level, the stage of methodical inquiry, modified somewhat and transformed to adapt them to higher points of view but in all essentials they are still the old stories, handed down from generation to generation by word of mouth until through the rise of the literary spirit they are given a definite form. The characters in these early endeavours to picture the universe coming into being are naturally the gods, and as the religious life, keeping pace with the social status and the political turmoils, becomes more definitely regulated, the gods assume a definite relationship to one another with variations in rank corresponding to those which hold good for human society. Instead of an indefinite series of powers, representing the personification of the many forces manifesting themselves in nature and that condition man's welfare, we have a selection, and the powers so selected form a pantheon which becomes more or less systematically organised. At this stage Creation ...

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