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Title: Pantheism, Its Story and Significance
Religions Ancient And Modern

Author: J. Allanson Picton

Release Date: February 10, 2004 [EBook #11015]

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PANTHEISM

By J. ALLANSON PICTON

RELIGIONS ANCIENT AND MODERN

PANTHEISM

Its Story and Significance

RELIGIONS: ANCIENT AND MODERN.

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PANTHEISM: ITS STORY AND SIGNIFICANCE. By J. ALLANSON PICTON, M.A.
Author of _The Religion of the Universe_, etc.

RELIGION OF ANCIENT GREECE. By Miss JANE HARRISON, Fellow of Newnham
College, Author of _Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion_, etc.

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PANTHEISM

Its Story and Significance

BY J. ALLANSON PICTON

LONDON

1905

CONTENTS

CHAP.

FOREWORD
I. PRE-CHRISTIAN PANTHEISM
II. POST-CHRISTIAN PANTHEISM
III. MODERN PANTHEISM
AFTERWORD

PANTHEISM

FOREWORD.

[Sidenote: Pantheism not Sectarian or even Racial.]

Pantheism differs from the systems of beli