PAGAN & CHRISTIAN CREEDS:

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THEIR ORIGIN AND MEANING

By EDWARD CARPENTER

Harcourt, Brace and Company; New York

[1920]

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"The different religions being lame attempts to represent under various guises this one root-fact of the central universal life, men have at all times clung to the religious creeds and rituals and ceremonials as symbolising in some rude way the redemption and fulfilment of their own most intimate natures--and this whether consciously understanding the interpretations, or whether (as most often) only doing so in an unconscious or quite subconscious way."--The Drama of Love and Death, p. 96.