Excerpt from The Smoke and the Flame: A Study in the Development of Religion

I have wished in this little book to present, in a simple and popular form, and at the same time with some suggestiveness, I trust, for thoughtful readers, a sketch of the process of the growth of religion. I have tried to answer the perplexing question how it can be that the one word "religion" has covered the most repulsive as well as the most inspiring facts of history, the grossest superstitions as well as the most rational and exalted idealism.

The history of religion has been a wonderful development, like the history of art, of science, of government.

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