Worship of Nature

This volume contains the lecture series given by the author before the University of Edinburgh in the years 1924-25. This work is a thorough-going discussion of the deep-seated early human tendency to personify and worship the Sky, Earth and Sun as deities or spirits, capable of influencing human life for good or evil. The treatment of the subject is according to races including Aryan, Vedic, Persians, Greeks, Romans Babylonians, Assyrians, Egyptians, Far East, India, Africa and America.