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The History of the Devil and the Idea of Evil from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
THIS WORLD OF OURS is a world of opposites. There is light and shade there isheat and cold there is good and evil there is God and the Devil. Thedualistic conception of nature has been a necessary phase in the evolution ofhuman thought. We find the same views of good and evil spirits prevailing amongall the peoples of the earth at the very beginning of that stage of theirdevelopment which in the phraseology of Tylor is commonly called Animism.While the idea of God has received much attention from philosophers andprogressive theologians its counterpart the dark figure of the Evil One hasbeen much neglected. And yet the Devil is after all a very interestingpersonality grotesque romantic humorous pathetic nay even grand andtragic. And if we have to declare that the idea of God is a symbol signifyingan actual presence in the world of facts should we not expect that the idea ofthe Devil also represents a reality? «
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