By the nature of things this book falls under two divisions. The first eight chapters criticise the current anthropological theory of the origins of the belief in spirits. Chapters ix.-xvii., again, criticise the current anthropological theory as to how, the notion of spirit once attained, man arrived at the idea of a Supreme Being. These two branches of the topic are treated in most modern works concerned with the Origins of Religion, such as Mr. Tyler's "Primitive Culture, " Mr. Herbert Spencer's "Principles of Sociology, " Mr. Jevons's "Introduction to the History of Religion, " the late Mr. Grant Allen's "Evolution of the Idea of God, " and many others. Yet I have been censured for combining, in this work, the two branches of my subject; and the second part has been regarded as but faintly connected with the first.
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- CONTENTS
- I - INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER
- II - SCIENCE AND 'MIRACLES'
- III - ANTHROPOLOGY AND RELIGION
- IV - 'OPENING THE GATES OF DISTANCE'
- V - CRYSTAL VISIONS, SAVAGE AND CIVILISED
- VI - ANTHROPOLOGY AND HALLUCINATIONS
- VII - DEMONIACAL POSSESSION
- VIII - FETISHISM AND SPIRITUALISM
- IX - EVOLUTION OF THE IDEA OF GOD
- X - HIGH GODS OF LOW RACES
- XI - SUPREME GODS NOTNECESSARILY DEVELOPED OUT OF 'SPIRITS'
- XII - SAVAGE SUPREME BEINGS
- XIII - MORE SAVAGE SUPREME BEINGS
- XIV - AHONE. TI-RA-WÁ. NÀ-PI. PACHACAMAC. TUI LAGA.TAA-ROA
- XV - THE OLD DEGENERATION THEORY
- XVI - THEORIES OF JEHOVAH
- XVII - CONCLUSION
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