Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2011
No one who takes the trouble to investigate the various Mythological systems of the Heathen world, can fail to be struck with the very remarkable similarity which exists between them. To account for this similarity is an interesting, and, at first sight, a difficult undertaking.
1 We have here an instance of the very different meaning attached to the same word by the Heathen and by Christians. By the Omnipresence of God, the former mean that he is present in all things, whereas we mean by that term that all things are present to God.