God, and sympathises with suf-ferings wherever they are seen which con-quers pride and sloth, and offers itself up asa willing victim to the cause of mankind.We call that mind free which protects it-self against the usurpations of human so-ciety which does not cower to humanopinion which respects itself too much tobe the slave of the many or the few. A manmay read a monument of books, and neverknow the more because knowing but lit-tle of all. Study, and the means of study, are in- dispensable but all study and no reflec-tion will never make a scholar. Sacrifice sought the harmonisation of the earthly and divine, so the victim must seem willing to offer its own life on behalf of the community it must remain calm and be quickly and cleanly dispatched. Each was the best specimen of its kind, cleansed, clad in sacrificial regalia and garlanded the horns of oxen might be gilded. The most potent offering in Ancient Roman religion was animal sacrifice, typically of domesticated animals such as cattle, sheep and pigs. Basically, a sacrifice, or sacrificium, was a gift to the gods, heroes, emperors, or the dead.