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Title: The Religious Sentiment
Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and
Philosophy of Religion

Author: Daniel G. Brinton

Release Date: September 22, 2009 [EBook #30061]

Language: English

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_BY THE SAME AUTHOR._

THE MYTHS OF THE NEW WORLD: A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology
of the Red Race of America. _Second edition, revised._ Large 12mo,
$2.50.

THE RELIGIOUS SENTIMENT: Its Source and Aim. A Contribution to the
Science and Philosophy of Religion. Large 12mo, $2.50.

THE

RELIGIOUS SENTIMENT

ITS SOURCE AND AIM

_A CONTRIBUTION TO THE SCIENCE AND
PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION._

BY

DANIEL G. BRINTON, A.M., M.D.

_Member of the American Philosophical Society, the American Philological
Society, etc.; author of "The Myths of the New World," etc._

[Colophon]

NEW YORK
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
1876.

COPYRIGHT,
BY HENRY HOLT
1876.

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PREFACE

Mythology, since it began to receive a scientific handling at all, has
been treated as a subordinate branch of history or of ethnology. The
"science of religion," as we know it in the works of Burnouf, Mueller,
and others, is a comparison of systems of worship in their historic
development