Therefore the strange resemblances in heathen myths
to what is revealed in the Scriptures, as well as the ethical
anticipations which have been found in ancient philosophies, all, so far
from proving that Christianity is a natural product of the human mind, in
fact, are confirmations of it, unconscious prophecies, and presentiments
of the truth.
[292-1] Alfred Maury, _La Magie et l'Astrologie dans l'Antiquite et au
Moyen Age_, p. 8: Paris, 1860.
[292-2] Waitz, _Anthropologie_, i. pp. 325, 465.
[293-1] So says Dr. Waitz, _ibid._, p. 465.
[294-1] Schoolcraft, _Algic Researches_, i. p. 143.
[294-2] _L'Homme Americain_, ii. p. 319.
[295-1] Brasseur, _Hist. du Mexique_, liv. iii. chaps. 1 and 2.
[295-2] Sahagun, _Hist. de la Nueva Espana_, lib. x. cap. 29.
[296-1] Novalis, _Schriften_, i. p. 244: Berlin, 1837.
[296-2] Ibid., p. 267.
[296-3] _Hist. de la Civilisation en France_, i. pp. 122, 130.
[297-1] _Narrative of J. R. Jewett among the Savages of Nootka Sound_, p.
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