"Pagan religion" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... reign of Theodosius the Great, the pagan religion and pagan knowledge were together destroyed. This emperor was restrained by no doubts, for he was very ignorant and, it must be admitted, was equally sincere and severe. Among his early measures we find an order that if any ...
— History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) - Revised Edition • John William Draper
... pagan religion were to foretell the future, to explain the universe, to avert calamity, and to obtain the assistance of the gods. They contained no instruments of moral teaching analogous to our institution of preaching, or to the moral preparation ...
— THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION • ELLWOOD P. CUBBERLEY |
