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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A similar narrowness of judgment is shown by those who assert that certain savage nations are wholly destitute of religion. After examining these statements, Mr. Tylor concludes thus: So far as I can judge from the immense mass of accessible evidence, we have to admit that the belief in spiritual beings appears among all low races with whom we have attained to thoroughly intimate acquaintance. 6. Religious Statistics of the World. Look at the map of the world. The population of our earth is supposed to amount to about 1,392,000,000. Of these about 100,000,000 are what are called Pagan or Heathen, by which is meant the lowest order of religious belief. - Next to these is the chief surviving Polytheistic Religion, that of the Brahmans, numbering about 175,000,000. Then comes the religion of Buddha, which, with the system of Confucius, embraces some 420,000,000. The Mohammedans number 201,000,000, and the Christians, including Roman Catholic, Greek Church, Protestant, and smaller bodies, amount to about 388,000,060, ? in all 1,284,000,000. The whole of Eastern Asia is occupied by the Buddhists, India by the Brahmins, large parts of Africa, Australia, and the South Sea Islands by the Pagan tribes, parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa by the Mohammedans, the largest partof Europe and America by Christians. The two monotheistic religions ? Christianity and Islam ? are believed by nearly half of the populations of the earth. It may be said, however, that man outgrows all supernatural religion as he becomes more fully unfolded intellectually; that then, science, art, literature, humanity, take the place of God as the object of devotion and service. To see if there is any pronounced tendency in this direction, let us take the instance of the United States, ? a country in whi... No library descriptions found. |
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