# Ritual and belief Author: Hartland, Edwin Sidney, 1848-1927 Genre: Category: History - Religious Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71238 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Ritual+and+belief+Hartland&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary Among the various intellectual activities of the last fifty years none has awakened a more widespread interest than that of the study of the evolution of human civilization. The reason is apparent: it has revolutionized our conception of human history, and has shaken to their very centre the religious traditions of Europe and civilized America. The general doctrine of evolution as applied to the universe at large was established shortly after the middle of the nineteenth century by Darwin and Spencer. Geology had already revealed the enormous age of the earth, and the long procession of periods through which the flora and fauna had advanced to ever higher organization. Archæology had begu... ## Chapters - [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ritual-and-belief-71238/chapters/16/index.md) - [Part 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ritual-and-belief-71238/chapters/24/index.md) - [Part 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ritual-and-belief-71238/chapters/23/index.md) - [Part 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ritual-and-belief-71238/chapters/19/index.md) - [Part 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ritual-and-belief-71238/chapters/17/index.md) - [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ritual-and-belief-71238/chapters/9/index.md) - [Part 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ritual-and-belief-71238/chapters/18/index.md) - [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ritual-and-belief-71238/chapters/12/index.md) - [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ritual-and-belief-71238/chapters/13/index.md) - [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ritual-and-belief-71238/chapters/14/index.md) - [Part 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ritual-and-belief-71238/chapters/20/index.md) - [Part 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ritual-and-belief-71238/chapters/21/index.md) - [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ritual-and-belief-71238/chapters/11/index.md) - [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ritual-and-belief-71238/chapters/10/index.md) - [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ritual-and-belief-71238/chapters/15/index.md) - [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ritual-and-belief-71238/chapters/6/index.md) - [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ritual-and-belief-71238/chapters/3/index.md) - [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ritual-and-belief-71238/chapters/2/index.md) - [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ritual-and-belief-71238/chapters/8/index.md) - [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ritual-and-belief-71238/chapters/5/index.md) - [Part 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ritual-and-belief-71238/chapters/22/index.md) - [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ritual-and-belief-71238/chapters/4/index.md) - [Part 28](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ritual-and-belief-71238/chapters/28/index.md) - [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ritual-and-belief-71238/chapters/7/index.md) - [Part 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ritual-and-belief-71238/chapters/25/index.md) - [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ritual-and-belief-71238/chapters/1/index.md) - [Part 27](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ritual-and-belief-71238/chapters/27/index.md) - [Part 26](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ritual-and-belief-71238/chapters/26/index.md) - [Part 29](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ritual-and-belief-71238/chapters/29/index.md)