Excerpt from The Religions of Modern Syria and Palestine: Lectures Delivered Before Lake Forest College on the Foundation of the Late William Bross A certain lack of proportion may be observed in the space here devoted to the different cults respectively. For ex ample, there are no chapters dealing exclusively with the Jews or with the secret religions, the latter being briefly treated as heretical offshoots of Islam. In order to adapt the great amount of material which had been collected to the space allotted to a volume of the Bross Library, both condensation and elimination became imperative. The final form was determined by a number of reasons which it is not necessary to detail. I hope to develop in the future the material already gathered but not here used, material relating to the Jews, Druses, Nuseiriyeh, and Isma'iliyeh. 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.