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Plutarch, in like manner, tells of the early religion of the Romans, that it was imageless and spiritual.

He says Numa " forbade the Romans to represent the deity in the form either of man or of beast.

Nor was there among them formerly any image or statue of the Divine Being ; during the first one hundred and seventy years they built temples, indeed, and other sacred domes, but placed in them no figure of any kind ; persuaded that it is impious to represent things Divine by what is perishable, and that we can have no conception of God but by the understanding ".