CHAPTER ITHE RELIGIONS OF PRIMITIVE PEOPLES And yet he left not himself without witness.-Acts 14:17.1. Primitive peoples, as the term is here employed, are the peoples who have never developed sufficiently to embody their ideas in literature. They are the savage and barbarous tribes of ancient and modern times. According to the generally accepted theory of evolution, all the civilized peoples of the world have arisen from a savage ancestry. The primitive peoples of antiquity may be known to some extent through survivals of their ideas and customs among their civilized descendants, as well as through occasional descriptions of their institutions by ancient writers; those of modern times, from the descriptions of travelers and missionaries and from the investigations of anthropologists.Between the lowest and the highest savages there are many gradations. Anthropologists, however, recognize four well-denned classes of peoples: those of the early Stone Age, often called Paleolithic; Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; CHAPTER PAGE; I The Religions of Primitive Peoples i; II The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria 16; III The Religion of Egypt 35; IV The Religion of the Ancient Hebrews 58 V Judaism 79; VI Mohammedanism 97; VII Zoroastrianism 117; VIII The Religion of the Vedas 138; IX Buddhism and Jainism 158; X Hinduism 178; XI The Religions of China 201; XII The Religions of Japan 223; XIII The Religion of Greece 242; XIV The Religion of Rome 265; XV Christianity 286; Appendix I 308; Appendix II 325; Index 335; xiAbout the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful