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London: Jonathan Cape, 1953. X, 502 pages, indexed. Foreword by Albert Einstein. Light bumping of the corners of the boards, top edge of the text block tinted black. Otherwise in very good order given its age. "This work is a broadly conceived attempt to portray man's fear-induced and animistic and mythic ideas with all their far-flung transformations and interrelations. It relates the impact of these phantasmagorias on human destiny and the causal relationships by which they have become crystallised into organised religion. This is a biologist speaking, whose scientific training has disciplined him in a grim objectivity rarely found in the pure historian. This objectivity has not, however, hindered him from emphasising the boundless suffering which, in its end results, this mythic thought has brought upon man." -- from the foreword by Albert Einstein. First British Edition. Black Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Philosophy.