The Function of Religion in Man's Struggle for Existence (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Function of Religion in Man's Struggle for Existence During the academic year of 1907-8, the Philosophic Union of the State University of California at Berkeley used my book, The Finality of the Christian Religion, as the basis of its study and discussion. It honored me further by a request to give the annual address before its Union, which I did on August 29, 1908.The address was delivered extemporaneously, but was subsequently dictated in a somewhat enlarged form to a stenographer, for publication in the university Journal. Owing to some agitation of rather a misleading character, in the press, but especially to the kind reception accorded me in Berkeley, for which I am very grateful, I decided to publish the address in book form. 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.