The Origin of All Religious Worship (Classic Reprint): Containing Also a Description of the Zodiac of Denderah

The Origin of All Religious Worship (Classic Reprint): Containing Also a Description of the Zodiac of Denderah

Excerpt from The Origin of All Religious Worship This synopsis will be found useful even by those who should possess the first, because it will serve as a guide in the study of many volumes, which on account of the nature of the work, places the ordinary reader beyond the circle of learning usually required, in order to read with profit, and without great effort, a work of erudition. They will find there a succinct result of their studies and precisely that which is desirable to be retained in the mind of those who do not wish to give themselves up entirely to the profound study of antiquity, and yet still desire to become acquainted with its religious spirit. As for those who have not access to the larger edition, they will find in this abridgment an extract of the principles of the new system of explanations and a sufficiently detailed account of the discoveries to which it has led, as also an idea of those more remote consequences which may result to those, who shall pursue still further the study of antiquity on this newly opened route. It will thus offer to both new ideas, which are not in the larger work. I have divested it, as much as the subject allowed, of that learned matter, which would involve an un usual erudition, in order to place it within the reach of the greatest number of readers possible, because the instruction and the happiness of my fellow men has been. And shall always be the object of my labors.