Huxley proposes to study theology purely as a question of anthropology: how belief in beings like men but without bodies arises, grows and declines. He sets the religion of early Israel, as told in the books of Samuel and Judges, beside the beliefs of Polynesian and other peoples, such as a Maori priest jerking a string tied to his god’s image.
A bold Victorian essay in comparative religion by the great champion of Darwin, still sharp in its reasoning. Download the free EPUB.