The Mythology and Rites of the British Druids - Brossura

Davies, Edward

Brossura

ISBN 10: 147008614X ISBN 13: 9781470086145

Casa editrice: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Riassunto

Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. THE first section of the ensuing Essay, effects the principal objectsof a Preface; yet the Author has not the confidence to intrude uponhis Reader, without premising a few pages, to bespeak his attention,and conciliate his esteem without offering some apology for thenature of his subject, and the manner in which it has been treated.To some persons, the utility of such a work may not be obvious. Itmay be asked What interest has the present age, in a mew of theerrors and prejudices of the Pagan Britons? To obviate this, andsimilar inquiries, I would suggest the reflection, that the history ofmankind is, in a great measure, the history of errors and prejudicesthat the superstition we have now to contemplate, however absurdin itself, affected the general tone of thinking in several districts ofBritain 'that its influence continued to recent times, and hasscarcely vanished at the present day. To an age of general inquiry,an investigation of the form and principles of this superstition, mustsurely be a subject of interest. In our times, a split of research,which few are so unjust as to impute to idle curiosity, embraces allthe regions of the known world: and is our own country the onlyspot that must be deemed unworthy of our attention?

Su questa edizione

• Editore: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 147008614X
• ISBN 13: 9781470086145
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 542