Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Short d104s in Faiths and Philosophies: Or Some Sentiments of the Good and Wise; Arranged Chronologically to Show the Movements of Thoughts Through the Ages
With the view of testing such theories, we began many years ago to carefully study and collect all available data, not only from books, but many capable adherents of the ancient and modern religions Of Asia with whom we held sympa thetik intercourse for a third of a century. TO this has been added laborious research, through the dusty tomes Of bygone ages, and the following is a selection summarizing the views Of many great leaders, so far as these dared to make their opinions public. If we are as accurate as we have tried to be in this chronological epitome, the reader will have before him a most valuable record of the growth of nearly all pious and philosophic thought from the earliest known times, down to Christianity - too well known to the majority Of our readers to be here entered upon.
The summary embraces the deepest thoughts of the best and wisest of the world on man's past, present and future, and with the general result, that religions like all else have slowly and steadily evolved; that they never lept into existence through any supernatural agencies, and that their prominent great ones - quasi divine founders -were but the apex Of pyramids which had been slowly maturing centuries or ages before their births. They but guided the currents Of their time, and the streams ?owed on assuming devious courses, concrete and sensuous forms none could stay or anticipate.
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