From Adam's Peak to Elephanta, Sketches In Ceylon And India

Excerpt: The subject of Religious Origins is a fascinating one, as the great multitude of books upon it, published in late years, tends to show. Indeed the great difficulty to-day in dealing with the subject, lies in the very mass of the material to hand?and that not only on account of the labor involved in sorting the material, but because the abundance itself of facts opens up temptation to a st...