William Robertson Smith: This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost.

This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost.

-- William Robertson Smith


		Name: William Robertson Smith Type: Scientist Nationality: Scottish Birth: November 8, 1846 Death: March 31, 1894

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