The Golden Bough外国、社会、百科_在线免费阅读_精彩免费下载

basely in

preferring

their

personal

existence

to the

interests

of their

country.

All this

was

changed by

the spread

of

Oriental

religions

which

inculcated

the

communion

of the

soul with

God and

its

eternal

salvation

as the

only

objects

worth

living

for,

objects in

comparison

with which

the

prosperity

and even

the

existence

of the

state sank

into

insignificance.

The

inevitable

result of

this

selfish

and