The Unknown God Or Inspiration Among Pre Christian Races

Excerpt from The Unknown God: Or Inspiration Among Pre-Christian Races What may be called the "modern method" in studying ethic or heathen religions is not, as was once the case, merely to search for their defects, or to show their inferiority to the highest religion, but to find what good there was in them; to see how the man of other races and times regarded the problems of the universe. We wish to know what was his conception of the primeval Cause, what he considered his relation to be to that strange power, and how far that relation affected his daily life and practical morals. We would gladly know how he regarded the great darkness beyond life, and what thoughts he conceived of another life and of the beings there. We eagerly seek to learn what moral ideals and conceptions he transferred to another existence, and how far he succeeded in lifting the great veil which hangs before it. We try to stand in his footsteps and to see the great mystery as he endeavored to see it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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