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20137	Scholten, Johannes Henricus	A Comparative View of Religions			.txt	text/plain	10640	580	67	The conception of religion presupposes, _a_, God as object; _b_, man as nature-worship of the ancient nations; the second in Buddhism, and in of religious belief before its religion reached its highest development, intellectually to worship the divine in nature and her powers, he thinks people, but a god of the priests; not the lord of nature, but the With Brahminism the religion lost its original and natural More developed intellectually is the nature-religion of the ancient In the Semitic races the religious spirit rose above nature-worship in Religion appears in another form among the Semites in the worship of the nature-religion with its grossly sensual worship of the divine, and nature-religion there developed among the Semites the conception of religious and moral life, the irresistible power of the divine spirit, dependence upon God. Religion in its highest form, conceived as the [Footnote 53: The most original sources of the Christian religion are	./cache/20137.txt	./txt/20137.txt