Excerpt from The Classification of Religions: Different Methods, Their Advantages and Disadvantages
Every analysis of religion proceeds from assumptions which when written out or expounded become a philosophy. Hence in the pages which follow we have an epitomization of some of the leading philosophies of religion. The thoughtful study of these analyses or classifications must surely lead to a better understanding of the further problem, viz., of the nature of religion itself. Each historic religion furnishes an example of some phase of the religious nature and tendency of mankind; and comparative analysis shows how incompletely the fulness of religion, as we are coming to see it, has been represented by each of them. With the vast accumulation of facts before us, it is plain that no other feature of human life has been so dominating. Taken up in the modern spirit, no other study will repay the effort expended with so great an extension and illumination of view.
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