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Pelican / Penguin (1958), Paperback, 336 pages
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The author writes with scientific impartiality and with full recognition of recent developments in the acquisition of knowledge: and he believes that there is only one right way of persuading, and that is to present what is true in such a way that nothing will prevent it from being seen except the desire to remain in darkness.
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LibraryThing member Ashvajit
This book showed me, during my teenage enquiries concerning religion, that Christianity was simply one amongst many world religions. I found that the author's approach was however syncretistic and anthropological rather than analytic and philosophical, and that it did not not point the way towards
I was grateful for this compendious early glimpse of mankind's religious strivings. Feeling stimulated, though disatisfied with the text led me on to a further quest - the search for a principle, philosophy or practice underlying or overarching all merely adventitious or sectarian religious sentiment, so I am grateful to the author of this book, which was for me at that time a stepping stone to the other shore of religious study - the mind of man.
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a committed world view.I was grateful for this compendious early glimpse of mankind's religious strivings. Feeling stimulated, though disatisfied with the text led me on to a further quest - the search for a principle, philosophy or practice underlying or overarching all merely adventitious or sectarian religious sentiment, so I am grateful to the author of this book, which was for me at that time a stepping stone to the other shore of religious study - the mind of man.
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336 p.; 7 inches
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0140200894 / 9780140200898