Natural and Comparative Religion an Inaugural Lecture (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Natural and Comparative Religion an Inaugural LectureIt may perhaps be retorted: Could a man not write the history of Magic or of Astrology without believing in them or indeed ever having believed in them I should answer': Perhaps but not with out having enough sympathy with them to know (if I may so speak) what men were after in striving to master nature by spells or to read their, fates in the stars enough sympathy to understand, in Renan's phrase, how Magic and Astrology have 'charmed and satisfied', so far as they can be said to have done so, the souls and minds of men. Apart from such sympathy, the history will be written merely from the outside. It may amass useful material, but. It will' fail in an essential point of being what it pro fesses to be. The question who then in our genera tion is qualified to write the history of Magic or of Astrology involves the question - What were the demands. Of the human spirit which the belief in Magic or the belief in Astrology essayed to satisfy, and where (if anywhere) are these same needs now.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.