...flourish. As he says about Roman superstition: "the various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally...as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful."180 Like Hume, he preferred a superstition that was not "absurd or excessive." Gibbon's famous...

...and chief priest. Edward Gibbon wrote that the "various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally...as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful."6 Only when Constantine legalized Christianity in 313 and the Christian Church claimed a separate...

...Edward Gibbon wrote in his famous passage: "The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosophers as equally false, and by the magistrates as equally useful." CONFUCIANISM: GENTLE COLLECTIVISM...

...of conditions in the second century that "the various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally...equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful." Later, he applied this premise to the specific topic of persecution, contrasting the "inflexible obstinacy"...

...also his famous comment on Roman religion; 'The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally...equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful' (DF i. 56l. English politics in the eighteenth century abo required the endorsement of useful fictions....

...fused, split and evolved in a manner more reminiscent of the Roman Empire. However, if Roman cults 'were all considered by the people as equally true;...as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful',16 such tolerant heterodoxy was alien to Mesoamerican religion, which combined a complex, shifting...

...considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosophers, as equally false; and by the magistrates, as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not...only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. Ibid., Chapter II, Vol. I p. 56. 3 Under the Roman empire, the labour of an industrious and ingenious...

...ofthe superstitious, part oftheir subjects. The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equallyfalse; and by the magistrate. as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual...

...this attitude very well when he said that "the various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosophers as equally false; and by the magistrates as equally useful." It was in Antioch, the home...

...the superstitious, part of their subjects. The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally...only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. [...] II. The narrow policy of preserving, without any foreign mixture, the pure blood of the ancient...