Building the City (Classic Reprint)
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Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Building the City When we gaze back across the footprints of forgotten generations and explore the dawn where history began, we discover one outstanding landmark. In the dim morning of the world it was religion which lay at the basis of human society. On this sacred rock civilization was founded. A primeval settlement had for its centre the hearth-fire, which was the shrine and symbol of the family god. Diodorus preserves a Greek saying - like an echo from the childhood of mankind - that the hearth-fire taught men to build houses. Here was the earliest origin of a settled home. In similar fashion a primitive town gathered about some holy place, the sanctuary of the clan. Those legends which describe the founding of Rome tell with what solemn rites Romulus first reared an altar and kindled fire thereon, and traced round it a consecrated precinct, and then reared walls beyond to shut out aliens and enemies. At the focus of an ancient city stood the dwelling of a divinity, which hallowed and protected the humbler dwellings that clustered under its shadow. Round their shrine the worshippers formed a sort of rude civic Church, with rites and traditions of their own, in which municipal customs and laws were inseparably blended with religious rules and formulas. 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.
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