Excerpt from Introduction to the Science of Religion
For more complete information on many points touched upon in these Lectures, I must refer my readers to my Essays on the Science of Religion, and the Essays on Mythology, Traditions and Cus toms, published in 1867 under the title of 'chips from a German Workshop.'
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