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HISTORICAL PANTHEISM

These books illustrate that Pantheism is not a strictly modern phenomenon, but is a philosophy which has enjoyed a long history, and several modern resurgences.

Pantheism: Its Story and Significance by James Picton, Constable, 1905
Rather old-fashioned account of the history of Pantheism; nonetheless valuable for its description of the variety of sources contributing to a Pantheist world-view. UPS publishes Picton's chart on the Evolution of Religions, showing Pantheism as the ultimate and enlightened completion of what began as mere animism.

General Sketch of the History of Pantheism by Constance Plumptre, 1878.
Another old-fashioned work, valuable only for its historical perspective.

Ethics by Benedict de Spinoza, E.P. Dutton, 1910.
Formidible reading; but no list of Pantheist thought can be complete without the leading publication by the founder of western Pantheism.

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Pantheism \Pan"the*ism\, n. [Pan- + theism.]

Any doctrine, philosophy, or religious practice that holds universe [cosmos], taken or conceived of as the totality of forces and/or matter, is synonymous with the theological principle of God.

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