A Handbook of Comparative Religion. E-book. Formato PDF Samuel Henry Kellogg   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

It may not be amiss to remark that this book has been perforce written under great disadvantage, on account Of the impossibility of access to many valuable sources Of illustra tion such as abound in libraries in Great Britain and America; for in such a small and out-of-the-way station as has been Of late the author's home in India, such helps are prao tically not obtainable. I will only venture to hope that for this lack some slight compensa~ tion may be found in the writer's many years Of residence and familiarity with the life and language Of the people, in such a great non Christian land as India.

The Book of Leviticus. E-book. Formato PDF Samuel Henry Kellogg   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Others, again, while sharing this feeling, also confess to a great difficulty which they feel in believing that many of the commands of this law can ever have been really given by inspiration from God. The extreme severity Of some of the laws, and What seems to them to be the arbitrary and even puerile character of other prescriptions, appear to them to be irreconcilable, in the one case, with the mercy, in the other, with the dignity and majesty, Of the Divine Being.