Download or read book Ways of the Spirit, and Other Essays (Classic Reprint) written by Frederic Henry Hedge and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ways of the Spirit, and Other Essays In one remarkable instance, however, the idea of such a history, and with it, of a human family, is distinctly recognized. In the Biblical Book of Genesis we have the beginning of a' history of man, but one which stops short with the mythic age of the world. Biblical history brings man to the building of Babel, or the period of greatest con centration, succeeded by disruption and dispersion and then, dismissing the theme, confines itself to the Single Hebrew line. Brief and fragmentary as the narrative is, these first chapters of the Bible contain more important contributions to the sci ence of history than all the classics. Christianity, by intoning the brotherhood of man, awakened a new interest In human destiny. The Christian Fathers manifest a truer appreciation of the unity of the race. Bunsen calls Clement of Alexandria the first Christian philosopher of the history of mankind. St. Augustine's City Of God embraces in its scope the whole human race as the subject of divine education, and distributes the ages of man in six days of a thousand years each, to end with the millennium. 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.