Thus the first religions were eminently symbolical, because, as that great philosophical historian, Grote, has remarked, "At a time when language was yet in its infancy, visible symbols were the most vivid means of acting upon the minds of ignorant hearers.

Symbol it is of the desolation which caused it, even the trampled fanes and altars of the human soul,the temple of God, whose profanation the church has suffered to go on unrebuked, till now both must crumble into the same grave.

Their most distinguishing symbol, is undoubtedly an affectation of great simplicity and familiarity of language.

The symbol of its authority is a red band round the cap, which means that you are a staff officer.

The symbol of Set was an animal with a head something like that of a camel, but it has not yet been satisfactorily identified; figures of the god are uncommon, for most of them were destroyed by the Egyptians when they changed their views about him. 9.

Although those symbols of the public faith were Scriptural documents, yet the reformation as truly described by the late Mr. Robert Lusk, was to the majority "a reformation only on paper."

According to John Tanner, the symbol for the lightning in Ojibway pictography was a rattlesnake.

The symbol of the state is an elephant fording a river.

Hence a symbol is the expression of an idea that has been derived from the comparison or contrast of some object with a moral conception or attribute.

Other important gods of the dead are: (1) ANUBIS, the son of R[=a] or Osiris, who presided over the abode of the dead, and with AP-UAT shared the dominion of the "funeral mountain"; the symbol of each of these gods is a jackal.

Such symbols are the true bodies of the true ideas.

The symbol of nature at this stage, as Paulsen well says, is the sphinx, under whose nourishing breasts the tearing claws are visible.

"I know not if the new-waked soul That stirs in every heart I see Has yet to reach the far-off goal Whose symbol is this Cross-shaped Tree....

The most popular symbol of Jehovah was an image of a bull.

A symbol, however, is an arbitrary fiction, and stands to the idea as a metaphor does to the thing itself.

His keen, sharp and caustic spirit did not forsake him when he changed his principles; and never did the Christwhose symbol is a lamb without a stainhave a sterner or more warlike zealot.

" But, besides R[=a], there existed in very early times a god called HORUS, whose symbol was the hawk, which, it seems, was the first living thing worshipped by the Egyptians; Horus was the Sun-god, like R[=a], and in later times was confounded with Horus the son of Isis.

The interpretation of all phenomena in terms of Matter, Motion, and Force is nothing more than the reduction of our complex symbols of thought to the simplest symbols; and when the equation has been brought to its lowest terms, the symbols remain symbols still.

Our fathers' symbol of the opening of a new day was the opening of the Bible.

As the magnificent, the vast, the sublime, which was seen in Nature, impressed itself on the imagination of the Orientals and ended in legends, so did allegory in process of time multiply fictions and fables to an indefinite extent; and what were symbols among Eastern nations became impersonations in the poetry of Greece.

I can also understand the man who refuses to take off his hat to a lady, like the old Quakers, because he thinks that a symbol is superstition.

The pictured symbol is a dim foreshadowing of that perfect judgment which He who looketh not at the outward appearance but at the heart will one day pass on all the lives of men.

He couldn't even tell which symbols were letters and which were numbers.

In the works of the ignorant secular artists of later times, these symbols of power, or divinity, or wisdom, became mere playthings; and when they had become familiar, and required by custom, and the old sacred associations utterly forgotten, we find them most profanely applied and misused.

When the symbol by which our impulse is stimulated is actual language, it is still more difficult not to confuse acquired emotional association with the full process of logical inference.