The history of the devil and the idea of evil; from the earliest times to the present day (1899)
Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 · Chicago : Open Court Pub. Co.; London, K. Paul, Trench, Trubner · leaf 450
n ; and thus Faust becomes a representativeof the bold spirit of investigation and progress whichcharacterises the present age. The Devil of the ]oiksbnch is real; actors and spec-tators believe in his power and are afraid to fall into hisclutches. In Goethes Faust the mythology of the storyis felt… … Witches Celebrating Walpurgis Night.(By Franz Simm.) 432 THE HISTORY OF THE DEVIL. ^UU fatal. Humorists. The figure of the Evil One began slowly to lose theawe which it exercised during the Middle Ages upon theimagination of the people, and Hans Sachs treats theDevil in his poems as a being of whom…
Devil · Demonology · Good and evil
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