Excerpt from The Childhood of Religions: Embracing a Simple Account of the Birth and Growth of Myths and Legends Its clear presentment within a moderate compass somevifhat difficult, but I have been at pains to select the essential portions, and, in View of those to whom the body of the work is addressed, to choose the simplest language which the several subjects permit. If the style is thus more fami liar than dignified, I hope it may with greater success attract the ear of the youthful reader. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.