William Robertson Smith Quotes and its meanings

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William Robertson Smith has written on many topics but he is most famous for his work about imagination & religion. People always share Imagination quotes, Religion quotes, from his literary works.

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Here are the top most famous quotes by William Robertson Smith.

• Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.
• In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.
• But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.