An Introduction To The Science Of Religion - Couverture souple

Lectur ,intended as an introduction to a comparative study of the principal religions of the worid4 were delivered at theB oyal Institution in London, in February tod March 1870, and printed in Fraser sM agazine ofF ebruary, March, A pril, and May of the same year. I declined at that time to publish them in as Sparate form, hoping that I might find leisure nto wOrk up more fully the materials whicify I had collected for many years. I thought that I should thus be enabled to make these lectures more instructive and more complete, and at the same time meet several objections that had been raised by some critics against the very possibility of a scientific study of religions, and against the views which I ventured to put forward on the origin, the growth, and the real yalue of the ancient systems ol faith, elaborated by different branches of the human mee. A small edition only of these lectures wad printed privately, and sent to some of my frienda, whose remarks 4iave proved in man$ cases most valuable and instructive. If now I have decK led oa.
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