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This being so, it follows that mythology ought not to take the prominent place that is too often assigned to it in the scientific study of ancient faiths.


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  • NameWilliam Robertson Smith
  • DescriptionScottish orientalist and minister of the Free Church of Scotland
  • BornNovember 8, 1846
  • DiedMarch 31, 1894
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionAnthropologist; Linguist; Librarian; Historian Of Religion; Archaeologist; Author; Theologian