Outlines of the History of Religion
To the Spread of the Universal Religions (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Outlines of the History of Religion: To the Spread of the Universal Religions

What I give in this little book are outlines, pencil-sketches, I might say, - nothing more. In the present state of our knowledge about the ancient religions, this only can be reasonably expected from the students of this branch of science, this only can be attempted with some hope of success. The time for writing an elaborate History of Religion, even of Religions, has not yet come. Not a few special investigations must be instituted, not a few difficult questions elucidated, before anything like this can be done. But it is useful, even necessary, from time to time to sum up the amount of certain knowledge, gathered by the researches of several years, and to sketch, be it here and there with an uncertain hand, the draught of what may at some time become a living picture. This is what I propose to do.

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