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good taste

and

humanity

of the

Greeks,

who seem

to have

preferred

the

kindred

but

gentler

rites of

Adonis.

Yet the

same

features

which

shocked

and

repelled

the Greeks

may have

positively

attracted

the less

refined

Romans and

barbarians

of the

West. The

ecstatic

frenzies,

which were

mistaken

for divine

inspiration,

the

mangling

of the

body, the

theory of

a new

birth and

the

remission

of sins

through

the

shedding