provided by the Internet Archive THE EVOLUTION OF THE IDEA OF GOD AN INQUIRY INTO THE ORIGINS OF RELIGIONS BY GRANT ALLEN AUTHOR OF “PHYSIOLOGICAL ÆSTHETICS” “THE COLOURS OF FLOWERS” “FORCE AND ENERGY” ETC LONDON: GRANT RICHARDS 1897 PREFACE |TWO main schools of religious thinking exist in our midst at the present day: the school of humanists and the school of animists. This work is to some extent an attempt to reconcile them. It contains, I believe, the first extended effort that has yet been made to trace the genesis of the belief in a God from its earliest origin in the mind of primitive man up to its fullest development in advanced and etherealised Christian theology. My method is theref…
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