THE BLOOD COVENANT:
Reading edition
A Primitive Rite and its Bearings on Scripture, by H. Clay Trumbull, D.D.
“An admirable study of a primitive belief and custom. One of the utmost importance in considering the growth of civilization.”
“A profound interest will be aroused by the keenness and clearness of vision, no less than by the wealth of learning, by means of which he follows a line of research, tracing through this one rite the cannibalism of savages to a religious impulse not essentially different in its symbolical aspect from one of the most vital principles of Christianity. In the details of the work will be found much to attract the attention of the curious. Its fundamental and essential value, however, is for the student of religions; and all such will be grateful to Dr. Trumbull for this solid, instructive, and enlightening work.”—Scotsman.
Demy 8vo., cloth, price 10s. 6d.