Note 642 — Chapter VIII · COMMENCEMENT OF MONOTHEISM AND THE DIFFERENTIATION OF THE MYTHS.
R. (Russell) Martineau translation
Hartung, in the first part of his Religion und Mythologie der Griechen, contradicts himself again and again on this subject. At first he makes monotheism precede all development of religion (p. 3), then he sees nothing religious at all in monotheism (p. 28), and next the growth of religion proceeds from polytheism to monotheism, not the reverse way (p. 32).