The Belief In Immortality And The Worship Of The Dead — James George Frazer

The theme here broached is a vast one and I hope to pursue it hereafter by describing the belief in immortality and the worship of the dead as these have been found among the other principal races of the world both in ancient and modern times Of all the many forms which natural religion has assumed none probably has exerted so deep and far reaching an influence on human life as the belief in immortality and the worship of the dead hence an historical survey of this most momentous creed and of the practical consequences which have been deduced from it can hardly fail to be at once instructive and impressive whether we regard the record with complacency as a noble testimony to the aspiring genius of man who claims to outlive the sun and the stars or whether we view it with pity as a melancholy monument of fruitless labour and barren ingenuity expended in prying into that great mystery of which fools profess their knowledge and wise men confess their ignorance

The theme here broached is a vast one and I hope to pursue it hereafter by describing the belief in immortality and the worship of the dead as these have been found among the other principal races of the world both in ancient and modern times Of all the many forms which natural religion has assumed none probably has exerted so deep and far reaching an influence on human life as the belief in immortality and the worship of the dead hence an historical survey of this most momentous creed and of the practical consequences which have been deduced from it can hardly fail to be at once instructive and impressive whether we regard the record with complacency as a noble testimony to the aspiring genius of man who claims to outlive the sun and the stars or whether we view it with pity as a melancholy monument of fruitless labour and barren ingenuity expended in prying into that great mystery of which fools profess their knowledge and wise men confess their ignorance

When philosophy a ffphilosophy and science by their combined efforts have ejected gods and goddesses from all the subordinate posts of nature it might perhaps be expected that they would have no further occasion for the services of a deity and that having relieved him of all his particular functions they would have arranged for the creation and general maintenance of the universe without ffffhim by handing over these important offices to an efficient ffstaff of those ethers atoms corpuscles and so forth which had already proved themselves so punctual in the discharge of the minor duties entrusted to them Nor indeed is this expectation altogether disappointed A number of atheistical philosophers have courageously come forward and assured us that the hypothesis of a fldeity as the creator and preserver of the universe is quite superfluous and that all things came into being or have existed from eternity without the help of any divine spirit and that they will continue to exist without it to the end if end indeed there is to be But on the whole these daring speculators appear to be in a minority Yayınevi Platanus Publishing Yazar James George Frazer Sayfa 529 Sayfa Kağıt 2 Hamur Boyut 14 00x21 00 cm Basım Yılı Nisan 2020 Barkod 9786257937757 Kategori Felsefe Kitapları Genel Felsefe

When philosophy a ffphilosophy and science by their combined efforts have ejected gods and goddesses from all the subordinate posts of nature it might perhaps be expected that they would have no further occasion for the services of a deity and that having relieved him of all his particular functions they would have arranged for the creation and general maintenance of the universe without ffffhim by handing over these important offices to an efficient ffstaff of those ethers atoms corpuscles and so forth which had already proved themselves so punctual in the discharge of the minor duties entrusted to them Nor indeed is this expectation altogether disappointed A number of atheistical philosophers have courageously come forward and assured us that the hypothesis of a fldeity as the creator and preserver of the universe is quite superfluous and that all things came into being or have existed from eternity without the help of any divine spirit and that they will continue to exist without it to the end if end indeed there is to be But on the whole these daring speculators appear to be in a minority

The theme here broached is a vast one and I hope to pursue it hereafter by describing the belief in immortality and the worship of the dead as these have been found among the other principal races of the world both in ancient and modern times Of all the many forms which natural religion has assumed none probably has exerted so deep and far reaching an influence on human life as the belief in immortality and the worship of the dead hence an historical survey of this most momentous creed and of the practical consequences which have been deduced from it can hardly fail to be at once instructive and impressive whether we regard the record with complacency as a noble testimony to the aspiring genius of man who claims to outlive the sun and the stars or whether we view it with pity as a melancholy monument of fruitless labour and barren ingenuity expended in prying into that great mystery of which fools profess their knowledge and wise men confess their ignorance

The theme here broached is a vast one and I hope to pursue it hereafter by describing the belief in immortality and the worship of the dead as these have been found among the other principal races of the world both in ancient and modern times Of all the many forms which natural religion has assumed none probably has exerted so deep and far reaching an influence on human life as the belief in immortality and the worship of the dead hence an historical survey of this most momentous creed and of the practical consequences which have been deduced from it can hardly fail to be at once instructive and impressive whether we regard the record with complacency as a noble testimony to the aspiring genius of man who claims to outlive the sun and the stars or whether we view it with pity as a melancholy monument of fruitless labour and barren ingenuity expended in prying into that great mystery of which fools profess their knowledge and wise men confess their ignorance img src https s3 eu west 1 amazonaws com dia kitadagitim ckeditor_assets pictures 53 content_1_original_original jpg alt height 15 width 15 font size 1 color white font img

When philosophy a ffphilosophy and science by their combined efforts have ejected gods and goddesses from all the subordinate posts of nature it might perhaps be expected that they would have no further occasion for the services of a deity and that having relieved him of all his particular functions they would have arranged for the creation and general maintenance of the universe without ffffhim by handing over these important offices to an efficient ffstaff of those ethers atoms corpuscles and so forth which had already proved themselves so punctual in the discharge of the minor duties entrusted to them Nor indeed is this expectation altogether disappointed A number of atheistical philosophers have courageously come forward and assured us that the hypothesis of a fldeity as the creator and preserver of the universe is quite superfluous and that all things came into being or have existed from eternity without the help of any divine spirit and that they will continue to exist without it to the end if end indeed there is to be But on the whole these daring speculators appear to be in a minority Tanıtım Bülteninden