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vellers to be entertained - by bar- barous tribes on the subject of God and of religion. The Apostle Paul informs us, that " the world," that is the Grecian and Eoman world, " by wisdom knew not God ; " and are we to suppose that the American Indians, with the comparatively pure and exalted ideas t…

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3,723
Year
1,861
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Internet Archive
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Record ID
3723
Source
Internet Archive
Publication
Queensland, Australia; John Dunmore Lang
Published
1861
Narrative type
Spirit-Person Narratives
Public-text label
spirit
Archive period
Gold Rush Colonial
Location
Queensland (QLD): B
State or territory
QLD
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vellers to be entertained - by bar- barous tribes on the subject of God and of religion. The Apostle Paul informs us, that " the world," that is the Grecian and Eoman world, " by wisdom knew not God ; " and are we to suppose that the American Indians, with the comparatively pure and exalted ideas they are alleged by certain writers to entertain of the Great Spirit, and the miserable aborigines of Australia, who, according to Count Strzelecki, are equally good theologians, have attained to a knowledge in divine things which escaped the keenest researches of the sages of Greece and Eome ? Aristotle, who, in point of genius and.

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