; Farnell, _Cults of the Greek States_, passim.

[1970] This remark applies to the oracles as well as to the
ordinary temple-service.

[1971] Cf. Wissowa, _Religion der Roemer_, Index, s.v.
_Pontifex_, _Pontifices_; Fowler, _Roman Festivals_, s.v.
_Pontifices_; Saussaye, _Lehrbuch der Religionsgeschichte_,
2d ed. (Roman religion).

[1972] On the other hand, the Romans have given us such
fundamental terms as 'religion,' 'superstition,' 'cult,'
'piety,' 'devotion,' all theocratic and individual.

[1973] De Groot, _Religious System of China_; Legge,
_Religion of China_; Doolittle, _Social Life of the
Chinese_.

[1974] Some high official will, doubtless, now take the
emperor's place.

[1975] This seems to remain true notwithstanding the present
movement in China toward the adoption of Western methods of
education. De Groot's estimate of Chinese religion (in op.
cit.) is less favorable.

[1976] Garcilasso de la Vega, _Royal Commentaries of the
Yncas_, ed. C. R. Markham, part i, bk. ii, chap. ix;
Prescott, _Peru_, vol. 1, chap. iii; Payne, _New World,
called America_, Index; A. Reville, _Native Religions of
Mexico and Peru_, Index.

[1977] Sahagun, _Historia General de las Cosas de Nueva
Espana_, Eng. tr. by Markham; Payne, op. cit.; Reville, op.
cit.

[1978] In the political and social disorders in Judea in the
seventh and sixth centuries B.C. the priesthood was,
probably, influential in maintaining and transmitting the
purer worship of Yahweh, and thus establishing a
starting-point for the later development.

[1979] Cf. Breasted, _Religion and Thought in Ancient
Egypt_, lecture x.

[1980] So Ezekiel's altar (probably a copy of that in the
Jerusalem temple-court), over 16 feet high, with a base 27
feet square (Ezek. xliii, 13 ff.). The Olympian altar was 22
feet high and 125 feet in circumference. Cf. W. R. Smith,
_Religion of the Semites_, 3d ed., pp. 202, 341, 377 ff. On
the general subject see article "Altar" in Hastings,
_Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics_.

[1981] So in Australia (Spencer and Gillen, _Native Tribes
of Central Australia_, Index, and _Native Tribes of Northern
Australia_, Index), Samoa (Turner), Canaan (Genesis, Judges,
passim), Greece (Gardner and Jevons, _Greek Antiquities_, p.
173), etc.

[1982] Gardner and Jevons, op. cit., Index, s.v. [Greek:
temenos], _Temple_; Wellhausen, _Reste a