Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1897 Excerpt: ... ORIGIN OF RELIGIONS. THE RIVERS OF LIFE. FINITENESS OF THE MIND. CONCEPTION OF THE DEITY.--RELIGION AND CLIMATE. The rivers of Life take their rise in far-off, shadowy realms. They have no definite point of beginning. That one primeval source from which the many races of humanity, with their countless forms of speech and their innumerable religious faiths, have descended--where in the seemingly endless vistas of the past can it be found? The day, the year, the century, or even the millennium when the religious instinct first developed in mankind, can never be definitely fixed, any more than can be located the geographical spot where human life began. All the efforts of pseudo-scientific and religious enthusiasts to determine the birthplace of the human race are absurdly futile, because they fail to take into consideration the enormous lapse of time since the human race came into being, and the consequent tremendous changes of land and water surface upon the face of the globe. Most of these investigators fall into the palpable error of assuming that the continents and rivers and mountains and oceans of the world have always existed exactly, or almost exactly, as they are at present. Hence they write lengthy and seemingly learned dissertations to show that mankind originated in Central Asia, or that the so-called Garden of Eden was located in the valley of the Euphrates. If these well-meaning writers could only open their eyes to the true operations of nature and natural forces, they would perceive that the world is subject to a gradual yet a thorough and resistless law of change--evolutionary change--that never for a moment does the earth stand still or retain the same aspect. Looked at in this light, we can see how puerile are the efforts of modern scientis...
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