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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VII. (of 12)

CHAPTER II
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They might have held both these opinions; and we ought not to be surprised to find error inconsistent.
The objects of the Druid worship were many.

In this respect they did not differ from other heathens: but it must be owned that in general their ideas of divine matters were more exalted than those of the Greeks and Romans, and that they did not fall into an idolatry so coarse and vulgar.

That their gods should be represented under a human form they thought derogatory to beings uncreated and imperishable.

To confine what can endure no limits within walls and roofs they judged absurd and impious.

In these particulars there was something refined and suitable enough to a just idea of the Divinity.


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