raditional
dread of evil spirits excites the terrors of those peoples
who have no firm belief in the providence or existence of a
benevolent Divinity. Even among the Chinese--the least
religious nation in the world, and whose trite formula of
scepticism, 'Religions are many: Reason is one,' expresses
their indifferentism to every form of religion--there exists
a sort of demoniacal fear (Huc's _Chinese Empire_, xix.). The
diabolic and magic superstitions of the Moslem are displayed
in Sale's _Koran_ and Lane's _Modern Egyptians_.

[167] _Essay concerning the Human Understanding_, book iv.
18.

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Page 90: Added missing quotation mark.

Page 107: Corrected typo "Hutchison's."

Page 165: Corrected typo "transsubstantiated."

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