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...ildren we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live in, none of us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture which went hand in hand with their social structure. It has been...

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...horus by Millennium Books [an imprint of E.J. Dwyer (Australia) Pty. Ltd.] in 1995. This second edition, with text reset, various emendations, and new... ...publication rights. Copyright © 1995 and 2006 by Donald Broadribb. Typeset in Times New Roman and Futura, using the program Mellel, with an Apple iMac... ...mpathy of All Things” is based on a lecture given at the Eranos Conference in Ascona in 1955 and was published in Eranos 24-1955, © Eranos Foundation,... ...wever, to discover that this is not the case all over the world. In modern Israel several groups reject such separation of religious and secular life,... ...s of religion. WHAT IS RELIGION? 9 10 same era, as well as with organized Arab religious movements, and with a very old, long-standing Mesopotamian r... ...ut were relatively independent of each other. Much the same is true of the Arab culture of the period. Mesopotamian religion was, like the Egyptian, o... ...k II, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1948. Egyptian + Palestinian + Arab + Mesopotamian Cultures Hebrew Hebrew + Zoroastrian + Greek + Gnostic ... ...or the overall development of ancient Hebrew religion see Helmer Ringgren, Israelite Religion, Fortress Press, Philadelphia, 1966. German original, 19... ...ngah are thus without their traditional land, even though they know of the localities of their ancestors. But most of their religious traditions have ...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wel... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ophet not to break into exhortation after the fashion of the proph- ets of Israel. The first difficulty in the way of establishing a world peace is th... ...ow perfectly well how unpleasant all this is to read, this outbreak at two localities that have never done me any personal harm except a little mud-sp... ... go—now it is Persia, now it is Macedonia, now the Eastern Empire, now the Arab, now the T urk who is ascendant. The colours change as if they were in... ...l that time there exists ob- stinately an Armenia, an essential Persia, an Arabia; they, too, advance or recede a little. I do not claim that they are... ...een times—the European settlement of America and Siberia, for example, the Arabic sweep across North Africa, the invasion of Britain by the Low German...

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Excerpt: Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne.

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...erne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne, the Pennsylvania St... ...esque outlines against the sky; and betrayed no fear of the dangers of the Arabic Gulf, which the old histori- ans always spoke of with horror, and up... ...ed about among the mixed population of Somanlis, Ban- yans, Parsees, Jews, Arabs, and Europeans who comprise the twenty-five thousand inhabitants of A... ...s, he related the history of the Mormons from Biblical times: how that, in Israel, a Mormon prophet of the tribe of Joseph published the annals of the... ...riously delayed. Half of the voyage was almost accomplished, and the worst localities had been passed. In summer, success would have been well-nigh ce...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Typee: A Romance of the South Seas by Herman Melville, the Penn... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...nito Cereno’ and ‘The Bell Tower’ are equal to his best previous efforts. ‘Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile’ (1855), first printed as a serial ... ...ay to the place of their destination. The captain, unac- quainted with the localities of the island, joyfully acceded to the proposition—the canoe pad... ...y a distance we could not compute, and perplexed too in our remembrance of localities by our recent wanderings. Besides, it was unendurable the though... ... greater strength among many barbarous people. The hospitality of the wild Arab, the cour- age of the North American Indian, and the faithful friendsh...

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...ouse exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought together so widely scattered a collection--a difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a p...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvan... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... whereas we meet with no such hell- ish atrocities amongst the children of Israel. In the case of one memorable outrage by a Hebrew tribe, the nationa... ... “He beheld A vision, and adored the thing he saw. Arabian fiction never filled the world With half the wonders that were wr... ... people—T urks, according to my present impression, but it might have been Arabs— make an old traditional distinction (so said the French jour- nal) b... ... must suggest. But Lady Carbery reminded me of the three Calendars in the “Arabian Nights,” and argued that, as the ladies of Bagdad were justified in... ...as to its chronology), and the chronicles of the Jewish kings (Ju- daic or Israelitish), that we first find any allusion to malig- nant spirits. As ag... ...n the private room of the seneschal. Believing that his igno- rance of the localities was thus leading him on to certain capture, the Landgrave pursue...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thor... ...oing student publication project to bring classical works of litera ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... above the water on either hand, and flowering at this season and in these localities, in front of dense fields of the white species which skirted the... ... to the nature of fishes, since they are not phenomena confined to certain localities only, but forms and phases of the life in nature universally dis... ...ff, the missionary, distributed copies of Robinson Crusoe, translated into Arabic, among the Arabs, and they made a great sensation. “Robinson Crusoe’... ..., Hodyeda, and Loheya, and admired and believed!” On reading the book, the Arabians exclaimed, “O, that Robinson Crusoe must have been a great prophet... ...licing the melons, which are a fruit of the East, our thoughts reverted to Arabia, Per 97 HenryDavidThoreau sia, and Hindostan, the lands of contemp... ...e is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel.’” His son Wannalancet carefully followed his advice, and when Phili...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ater. But Rabelais lived in Maine. In Anjou, which often figures among the localities he names, he must have met with and read the Chronicles of the C... ...self with my mother’s gloves, of a most excellent perfume and scent of the Arabian Benin. After that I wiped me with sage, with fennel, with anet, wit... ...sed over the Hircanian sea, marched alongst the two Armenias and the three Arabias? Ay, by my faith, said he, we have played the fools, and are undone... ...e upon the earth, did severely punish the mutinous and seditious people of Israel. I consider likewise that Julius Caesar, who was so gracious an empe... ...all good historiographers have thus handled their chronicles, not only the Arabians, Barbarians, and Latins, but also the gentle Greeks, who were eter... ...ey to march straight into Dipsody, in such good order as did the people of Israel when they departed out of Egypt to pass over the Red Sea. But before...