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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: Inevitably these first efforts to understand were very
puerile, very superficial. As E. B. Tylor says[1] of primitive
folk in general, "they mistook an imaginary for a
real connection." And he instances the case of the inhabitants
of the City of Ephesus, who laid down a rope,
seven furlongs in length, from the City to the temple of
Artemis, in order to place the former under the protection
of the latter! WE should lay down a telephone wire, and
consider that we established a much more efficient connection;
but in the beginning, and quite naturally, men,
like children, rely on surface associations. Among the
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