n by educated Japanese.

[2100] Cf. Tiele, _Elements of the Science of Religion_,
Index, s.v.

[2101] Myths, it may be remarked, are not confined to the
uncivilised and the old national cults; they are found in
all great religious systems.

[2102] See, in this connection, the account of the faith of
the philosopher Sallustius, the Emperor Julian's friend, by
Professor Gilbert Murray, "A Pagan Creed," in the _English
Review_ for December, 1909. The term 'pagan' now has a
connotation that is singularly out of accord with the
character of a man like Sallustius.

[2103] Sec. 14 f.

[2104] Examples are the Copernican and Newtonian theories;
the magnitude of the stellar universe; Biblical criticism;
the theories of evolution and the conservation of energy.

[2105] The general religious attitude may be the same
whether the world be regarded as monistic or as pluralistic.

[2106] See above, Sec. 172.

[2107] Cf. L. T. Hobhouse, _Morals in Evolution_, part ii,
chaps. v-vii.

[2108] An example is the Old-Hebrew usage respecting
marriage with a half-sister or with a wife (not one's
mother) of a father. Up to about the seventh century B.C.
such marriages were lawful (Gen. xx, 12; 2 Sam. xiii, 13;
xvi, 22); later they were forbidden (Ezek. xxii, 10 f.; Lev.
xviii, 11). Maspero (in the _Annuaire de l'ecole des hautes
etudes_, 1896) points out that in Egypt marriage between
uterine brothers and sisters in the royal family was not
only legal but a sacred duty, its object being to maintain
the purity of the divine blood.

[2109] See above, Sec.Sec. 107, 180, 219.

[2110] Amos ii, 7; Hos. iv, 14.

[2111] The Old Testament command to exterminate the
Canaanites (Deut. vii, 2; xxv, 19; Josh. vi-xi) is not
historical, that is, was not given at the time stated or at
any other time. The Israelites, in fact, settled down among
the Canaanites and intermarried with them, and at the time
when the passages just cited were written (seventh century
and later) there were no such alien tribes in Canaan. But
these passages show how a current barbarous custom of war
could be regarded by religious leaders as pleasing to God.

[2112] See Sec. 630 ff.

[2113] So, for example, Butler's _Analogy_.

[2114] It is an exaggeration to say (as has been said) that
the sentiment of the sacred obligation of opinion was first
formulated or created in the