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Excerpt from The Historical and Permanent Elements in Religion: "B. D." Thesis As an introduction to our study it might be well for us first of all to define what we mean by religion. We are very often told by writers who have sought to give a definition of religion that its mani fold and widely different historic forms present a very serious difficulty, e.g., the primitive nature relig ions and.buddhism are separated by such a wide gulf that it is not very easy to bridge this in a sentence or two. Galloway points out that(1la definition of religion should bring out the genetic principles or motives which underlie the development of the religious consciousness. With this in mind, he offers the following as a tentative definition of religion. (la) Man's faith in a power beyond himself, whereby he seek to satisfy emotional needs and gain stability of life, and which he expresses in acts of worship and service. 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.