Elements of the Science of Religion, Volume 2: Ontological
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LECTURE I. THE MANIFESTATIONS AND CONSTITUENTS OF EELIGION.
THE MANIFESTATIONS AND CONSTITUENTS OF EELIGION.
.IN my previous course I endeavoured to explain my views regarding the development of religion. We investigated the stages and the directions of its development; we attempted to establish several laws or conditions which that development obeys; and lastly we tried to determine wherein that development essentially consists. We were concerned, in short, with an introduction to the morphological part of the science of religion. A different task now awaits us. We have hitherto been occupied with the ever-changing forms and varying manifestations of religion throughout human history, but we must now inquire as to what is permanent in the forms arising out of each other, and superseding each other, and as to the elements they all possess in common. This alone will enable us, so far as our limited knowledge permits, to determine the essence of religion and ascend to its origin. The subject of this second course will therefore be an introduction to the ontological part of the science of religion.
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