But the astral doctrine, introduced into the system of Iran from chaldaea, was a dangerous addition to the creed.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
We are not out of the stone age yet, as regards some portions of the globe; and it is quite possible that parts of the earth, not so very remote, may have been still in the midst of a stone age when Assyria, chaldaea, and Egypt were comparatively highly civilized.
"Creation and Its Records"
B.H. Baden-Powell
The adherents of modern theological systems dismiss these objects of the love and fear of a hundred generations of their equals, offhand, as "gods of the heathen," mere creations of a wicked and idolatrous imagination; and, along with them, they disown, as senseless, the crude theology, with its gross anthropomorphism and its low ethical conception of the divinity, which satisfied the pious souls of chaldaea.
"Hasisadra's Adventure Essay #7 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition""
Thomas Henry Huxley