The History of the Devil and the Idea of Evil

The History of the Devil and the Idea of Evil, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Paul Carus. Heavily illustrated. CONTENTS include: Good and Evil as Religious Ideas--Devil Worship--Ancient Egypt--Accad and the Early Semites--Persian Dualism--Israel--Brahmanism and Hinduism--Buddhism--The Dawn of a New Era--Early Christianity--The Idea of Salvation in Greece and Italy--The Demonology of Northern Europe--The Devil's Prime--The Inquisition--The Age of the Reformation--The Abolition of Witch-Prosecution--In Verse and Fable--The Philosophical Problem of Good and Evil. Reproduction of 1900 Edition.