Grant Allen Evolution of the Idea of God

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. How did we arrive at our knowledge of God P It seeks provisionally to answer these profound and important questions by reference to the earliest beliefs of savages, past or present, and to the testimony of historical documents and ancient monuments. It does not concern itself at all with the validity or invalidity of the ideas in themselves it does but endeavour to Show how inevitable they were, and how man's relation with the external universe was certain a priori to beget them as of necessity.