Pioneers of EvolutionFrom Thales to Huxley. E-book. Formato EPUB Edward Clodd   -  Blackmore Dennett, 2018  - 

This book needs only brief introduction. It attempts to tell the story of the origin of the Evolution idea in Ionia, and, after long arrest, of the revival of that idea in modern times, when its profound and permanent influence on thought in all directions, and, therefore, on human relations and conduct, is apparent. Between birth and revival there were the centuries of suspended animation, when the nepenthe of dogma drugged the reason; the Church teaching, and the laity mechanically accepting, the sufficiency of the Scriptures and of the General Councils to decide on matters which lie outside the domain of both. Hence the necessity for particularizing the causes which actively arrested advance in knowledge for sixteen hundred years.

Animism, the Seed of Religion. E-book. Formato PDF Edward Clodd   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Religion' that if we want a platitude, there is nothing like a definition. Perhaps most definitions hang between platitude and para dox. There are said to be ten thousand definitions Of Religion. One Of these is sup plied by Parson Thwackum in Tom Jones.

The Childhood of Religions: Embracing a Simple Account of the Birth and Growth of Myths and Legends. E-book. Formato PDF Edward Clodd   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Its clear presentment within a moderate compass somevifhat difficult, but I have been at pains to select the essential portions, and, in View of those to whom the body of the work is addressed, to choose the simplest language which the several subjects permit. If the style is thus more fami liar than dignified, I hope it may with greater success attract the ear of the youthful reader.