Rivers of Life, Part 2, or Sources and Streams of the Faiths of Man in all Lands Showing the Evolution of Faiths from the Rudest Symbolisms to the Latest Spiritual Developments
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: July 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 708
ISBN-13: 9780766126404
Subjects: Comparative Religion; Religion; Religion - World Religions
First sentence: HAVING sketched what we may call the five unwritten Faith-ideas of early men-which, though possessing no regularly defined Bibles, or Sacred Scriptures, were never, as far back as we can see, without rituals and literature of their own-we shall now pursue the more defined and easier, though still difficult task, of tracing religious development in one of the earliest cradles of the race in western Asia, the home of those great peoples who grew to a considerate maturity all along the banks of the Euphrates and Tigris.