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Excerpt from London and Londoners, Vol. 1 of 2: Or a Second Judgment of Babylon the Great
It has sometimes been the custom of nations to venerate their idols in the ratio of their size, some times in proportion to the number of their parts, and the odd and uncouth way in which they are put together, and sometimes in proportion to the de structive powers of the being, real or metaphorical, of which the image was the type. This has been the case, not only with the ancient Babylonians, who were dazzled with the altitude and golden head of the idol, without paying any attention to the falling off in the lower extremity, but also with the Egyp tians, the Hindoos, the Mexicans, and almost every nation which has had things of its own invention and construction to worship. The case is somewhat similar with the Babylonian Law, of which the size is greater, the parts more numerous and more in congruously put together, and the victims that are daily immolated to it greater, than ever was the case with the most gigantic, the most hideous, the most blood-thirsty idol, that the most wild and savage imagination ever devised. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
