Euhemerism, or the worship of dead men Deified, is to be found either in its germs or its rudiments; at any rate, one of their deities bears the name of Hajo, a known historic personage.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham
Polk was backed by rabid Southern fire-eaters and slavery extensionists, who had Deified negro bondage and exalted it beyond the Union, the Constitution, and everything else; by the almost solid foreign vote, still unfit for the duties of American citizenship; by the vicious and criminal classes in all the great cities of the North and in New Orleans; by the corrupt politicians, who found ignorance and viciousness tools ready forged to their hands, wherewith to perpetrate the gigantic frauds without which the election would have been lost; and, lastly, he was also backed indirectly but most powerfully by the political Abolitionists.
"Thomas Hart Benton"
Theodore Roosevelt
In the reign of Hadrian there was at Lanuvium a college which, by a curious fancy, combined the worship of the pure Diana with that of the Deified minion of the emperor.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill