VI, Letter 20, Sect. 14-15.
[32]Hesiod,
, Line 933 ff.
[33]Ibid. Plutarch, , "Pelopidas," Ch. 19.
[34]Homer, , Bk. XIV, Line 264 ff.
[35]Herodian, , Bk. V, Ch. 3, Sect. 3-5.
J/UPITER\ A/MMON\ is represented by C/URTIUS\ as a deity of the same
kind (, Bk. IV, Ch. 7, Sect. 23). The
A/RABIANS\ and P/ERSINUNTIANS\ adored also shapeless unformed stones
as their deity (Arnobius, , Bk.
VI., Ch. 11). So much did their folly exceed that of the
E/GYPTIANS\.
[36]Diogenes Laertius, , Bk. II,
Ch. 11, "Stilpo," Sect. 116.
[37]See C/AESAR\ of the religion of the G/AULS\, War>, Bk. VI, Sect. 17.
[38], Ch. 40.
[39][This sentence is as it originally appeared in Hume's Dissertations> which was printed but never distributed because of
political pressures. For prudential reasons Hume rephrased this
sentence which, in the first three distributed editions, reads,
"Thus, notwithstanding the sublime ideas suggested by and
the inspired writers, many vulgar seem still to have
conceived the supreme Being as a mere topical deity or national
protector.
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