

There is light and shade, there is heat and cold, there is good and evil, there is God and the Devil. "This world of ours is a world of opposites. Credited with bridging the gap between Eastern and Western beliefs, Carus believed that the dualism rampant in the West could be replaced in order to establish a more equitable world where difference and diversity would be accepted and nurtured, rather than suppressed. A lifelong Monist, Carus sought to apply a scientific analysis to the principles of humanity's religions.

The History of the Devil (1900) is a philosophical study by Paul Carus.
