Excerpt from Five Centuries of Religion, Vol. 3: Getting and Spending MY first duty is to express sincere gratitude to the electors on the Ford Foundation at Oxford, by whose invitation part of this book was delivered in lectures during the Michaelmas term of 1930. Next, I must warn readers that much in this and the next volume may lend itself to misapprehension unless my Intro duction and my concluding pages (596 - 9) are followed with some care. Only thus will they realize what the author has set out to attempt, and be able to judge how far he has succeeded. 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.