Religion in Human Evolution pdf free download. T h is is a large book about a large subject. It is therefore incumbent on me to give the reader an explanation of why it is so long (it could be many times longer), a road map, and a response to certain objections that may leap to the mind of some readers. I will begin by using the three epigraphs above to give an idea of what I am trying to do. Mann’s metaphor of the past as a well, in the opening sentence of his book, is complemented immediately by his second sentence: “Should we not call it bottomless?” It becomes clear in the long prologue that starts with these sentences that Mann is afraid, as he embarks on a story that reaches back into the second millennium BCE, that he will fall ever further into the past, lose his grip on each ledge that he reaches for in order to try to stop his fall, and in stead plummet ever deeper into what appears to be bottomless.
Religion in Human Evolution pdf free download
Among other things he shudders at the thought of falling below the human altogether into the deep crevasses of biological evolution. Toward the end of the prologue he becomes preoccupied with another fear: that the past is dead and that to fall into the past is to die. But just as he completes the prologue he comes to the truth that guides his enterprise: he thinks about time.
Religion in Human Evolution pdf free download
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