Quote by: William Robertson Smith

This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost.


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  • NameWilliam Robertson Smith
  • DescriptionScottish orientalist and minister of the Free Church of Scotland
  • BornNovember 8, 1846
  • DiedMarch 31, 1894
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionAnthropologist; Linguist; Librarian; Historian Of Religion; Archaeologist; Author; Theologian