Excerpt from The Religion of Israel IN the strict sense of the term, the religion of Israel came into existence with Moses. But no religion can make an entirely new beginning. Every religion must link itself on to the past, taking up into itself older cus toms and beliefs. Some of these may be assimilated without difficulty. But others will be directly contrary to its genius. Such, however, is the conservatism of the religious instinct that practices belonging to a lower type of religion will survive long after the religion out of which they sprang has given place to a higher. These incompatible elements may long exist side by side, though logic at last inevitably accomplishes its work, and the inharmonious survival must be either transformed or eliminated. When, therefore, the Hebrews, under the. 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.