The Modern Occult (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781532980367)

" If that imaginary individual so convenient for literary illustration, a visitor from Mars, were to alight upon our planet at the present time, and if his intellectual interests induced him to take a survey of mundane views of what is "in heaven above, or on the earth beneath or in the waters under the earth," of terrestrial opinions in regard to the great problems of mind and matter, of government and society, of life and death - our Martian observer might conceivably report that a limited portion of mankind were guided by views that were the outcome of accumulated toil, and generations of studious devotion, representing a slow and tortuous, but progressive growth through error and superstition, and at the cost of persecution and bloodshed; that they maintained institutions of learning where the fruits of such thought could be imparted and the seeds cultivated to bear still more richly, but that outside of this respectable yet influential minority there were endless upholders of utterly unlike notions and of widely diverging beliefs, clamoring like the builders of the tower of Babel in diverse tongues..."

Author: Joseph Jastrow
ISBN-10: 1532980361
ISBN-13: 9781532980367
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 04/28/2016
Pages: 36
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.14lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.07d