The Celtic Christianity of Cornwall

In one of the most brilliant of modern books its author calls attention to the common fallacy which assumes that “if you can find a principle which gives an adequate explanation of three different facts it is more likely to correspond with the truth than three different principles which give adequate explanations of the same facts severally.”
This fallacy underlies much that is being urged in favour of a common origin for religious doctrines and methods of worship. A single source of religio...