Excerpt from The Hand of God and Other Posthumous Essays: Together With Some Reprinted Papers This admitted, the value of what r'-r.mt Allen tells us about the later (in themselves immeasurably early) stages of the development of the world's religions is not to be easily over-estimated. His skill in disentangling a mass of material and presenting it in coherent form his insight into its significance, and in the resolution of the funda mental elements of which it is composed, are remarkable. What is apparent in his writings was yet more so in his talk, and in this they who were privileged to hear it will testify that it brought them into Contact with one of the most fertile and suggestive minds of our time. 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.