Note 19 — ON THE MEANING OF THE WORD RELIGION; HOW, AND FOR WHAT PURPOSE, SO MANY RELIGIONS HAVE BEEN INTRODUCED INTO THE WORLD.
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The landscape which Socrates describes to Simias (Phæton,) possesses infinitely more beauty than the Paradise of Eden: and the fable of the Hermaphrodites19 is beyond comparison a better invention than that which we read of in Genesis, where we are told that one of Adam’s ribs was taken from him for the purpose of creating a female out of it.