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Excerpt from Plutarch's Romane Questions
And here we must note a further limitation Of the subject Of the Romans Questions and of this Introduction. Surprise and inquiry are excited not by the familiar, but by the unusual so Plutarch's attention was arrested not by customs which, though purely Italian, were universal in Italy, e.g., the practice of covering the head during worship, but by fashions for which he could find no analogy or parallel in the stage Of religion with which alone he was acquainted. In such isolated customs, out of harmony with their surroundings, modern science sees survivals from an earlier stage Of culture and it is as survivals that they will be treated in this Introduction. Now, the stage Of religion with which Plutarch was familiar, and in which he could find no analogies for those fashions and customes, was polytheism and if those practices are survivals, they must be survivals from a stage of religion earlier than polytheism. 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.
