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Title: The new Larned History for ready reference, reading and research; the actual words of the world's best historians biographers and specialists; a complete system of history for all uses, extending to all countries and subjects and representing the better and newer literature of history
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Larned, Josephus Nelson, 1836-1913 Smith, Donald Eugene, 1878-
Subjects: History
Publisher: Springfield, Mass. C.A. Nichols publishing company
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astudy of Semitic culture.—E. Schmidt, SolomonsTemple in the light of other oriental temples. TEMPLE SOCIETY, religious organization.See Friends of the Temple. TEMPLES: Stage of culture represented bydevelopment of temple architecture.—Survey oftemples of Egypt, Asia Minor, Greece andRome, India and the Far East.—The temple iscommon to religions which have reached a certainstage of advancement, having generally passed be-yond the worship of natural objects and reacheda point at which an image of the god needs theprotection of walls and a roof. Thus the Cultosimage is the raison detre of the temple.—F. M.Day, Temples (R. Sturgis, Dictionary of architec-tjire and building, v. 3, p. ISO).—The earliest tem-ples were nothing but caverns, and from thiscircumstance the custom of consecrating cavernswas long preserved in Greece, and by many otherpeople, but more particularly in Persia and India.. Troglodites adored their gods in grottoes.Where natural grottoes were net to be found,
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vast artificial caverns were formed with incrediblelabour. In the plains the temple was, perhaps,at first merely an enclosure, containing an altar forsacrifice. This enclosure they surrounded withupright stones, forming a rude kind of colonnade,as we find instances among the Druids of thewest, and in many scattered remains of antiquityin various parts of the East.—R. Stuart, Dic-tionary of archilecture, v. 2, p. 10.—By the timethat man had superimposed a stone horizontallyupon two vertical ones . . . the embryo was con-ceived that in the fullness of time would be de-veloped into the trabeated design of the Egyptiantemple and the column-and-entablature design ofClassic architecture. From the colossal, mono-lithic form, still preserved, for example, in Stone-henge, there is a direct progression to the highlyorganized perfection of the Parthenon.—C. H.Caffin, How to study architecture, p. 8.—See alsoArchitecture: Prehistoric; Avebury; Stonehenge.—The religious ceremonies of the

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