"BD" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... significant rite Mommsen aptly observes, "Die Ideen goettlicher Gnade und Versoehnbarkeit sind hier ununterscheidbar gemischt mit der frommen Schlauigkeit, welche es versucht den gefaehrlichen Herrn durch scheinhafte Befriedigung zu beruecken und abzufinden." Roemische Geschichte, 4e Aufl., 1865, Bd. i. p. 176. After reading such a remark it may seem odd to find the writer, in a footnote, refusing to accept the true explanation of the custom; but that was a quarter of a century ago, when much less was known ...
— The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) - with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest • John Fiske |
