From Adam's Peak to Elephanta, Sketches In Ceylon And India, EPUB eBook

From Adam's Peak to Elephanta, Sketches In Ceylon And India EPUB

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Excerpt: "The subject of Religious Origins is a fascinating one, as the great multitude of books upon it, published in late years, tends to show.

Indeed the great difficulty to-day in dealing with the subject, lies in the very mass of the material to hand-and that not only on account of the labor involved in sorting the material, but because the abundance itself of facts opens up temptation to a student in this department of Anthropology (as happens also in other branches of general Science) to rush in too hastily with what seems a plausible theory.

The more facts, statistics, and so forth, there are available in any investigation, the easier it is to pick out a considerable number which will fit a given theory.

The other facts being neglected or ignored, the views put forward enjoy for a time a great vogue.

Then inevitably, and at a later time, new or neglected facts alter the outlook, and a new perspective is established."

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