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“March 9. Club at Jessie Cochrane's; young Loyson, son of Pere Hyacinthe, gave an interesting lecture on the religion of Ancient Rome, which he traced back to its rude Latin beginning; the Sabines, he thought, introduced into it one element of spirituality.
Its mythology was borrowed from Greece and from the Etruscans — later from Egypt and the East.
The Primitive Aryan religion was the worship of ancestors.
This also we see in Rome.
A belief in immortality appears in the true Aryan faith.
Man, finding himself human, and related to the divine, felt that he could not die.”
“March 15 ... .Mme. Helbig gave us an account of the Russian pilgrimage which came here lately.
Many of the pilgrims were peasants.
They travelled from Russia on foot, wearing bark shoes, which are very yielding and soft.
These Russian ladies deprecated the action of Peter the Great in building St. Petersburg, and in forcing European civilization upon his nation, when still unprepared for it.”
“March 18. ... Drove with Maud, to get white thorn from Villa Madama.
Went afterwards to Mrs. Waldo Story's reception, where met Mrs. McTavish,. youngest daughter of General Winfield Scott.
I was at school with one of her older sisters, Virginia, who became a nun.”
As the winter wore away and the early Roman spring broke, the last vestige of the discomfort of the first weeks vanished.
The daily drives to the country in search of wild flowers were an endless delight, as well as the trips to the older quarters of the city.
She
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