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POWER OF THE GREEK PHILOSOPHY 333dispersed peoples began to worship. In fact, whenthe corruption had gone on for some centuries, itwould have seemed as difficult to reduce to that ori-ginal worship of one God the worship offered by miiheir various d hich they had sunkt th P f m 1 d m god as toluce all the speeches which m in h dispd duced to his origin S Thtdeed a singular and mysterious parallel as well asynchronism bet h betw th deflectionf the human speech from the original languae-e. cr o andhe deflection of polytheistic worship from the worship3 red to God by Noah.But the union of wor ,hip with th autho y 'had been the foundation-stone of human societyas laid by God ihitect. and would have ensuredd and beautiful structure, fitted r all tl df man, was deeply and fatally affected by the risef Polytl Th fi th trdued strukd >wn to t 7 d f th hhilst the union indeed did not cease, its blessingwas d cases h h pt wastreme it miht seem to be almost changed O into acurse. Thus every act huma fe, both domestd civil, being td with ligious rit dw rship, th hip, when falsified bjectmight lend itself to the desecration of most sacredhins and turn religion into a pon againstty h case t y of Bab andher Asiatic deities but of Greek and AndG d generally had come to be immmen of human passions and superhum n p Yetthey were in the thought of the peop th guardf the A p he defenders of the land h g