Excerpt from Seneca's Morals, by Way of Abstract: To Which Is Added a Discourse, Under the Title of an After-Thought
And again 3, Seneca says very well in his Morals They worship the images of the gods, says he, kneel to them, and adore them; they are hardly ever from them, either plying them with ofl'erings, or sacrifices, and yet after all this reverence to the image, they have no regard at all to the workman that made it.
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