_Polit._ I. 1. 7: καὶ τοὺς θεοὺς δὲ διὰ τοῦτο πάντες φασὶ βασιλεύεσθαι, ὅτι καὶ αὐτοι, οἱ μὲν ἔτι καὶ νῦν, οἱ δὲ τὸ ἀρχαῖον ἐβασιλεύοντο· ὥσπερ δὲ καὶ τὰ εἴδη ἑαυτοῖς ἀφομοιοῦσιν οἱ ἄνθρωποι, οὕτω καὶ τοὺς βίους τῶν θεῶν. Waitz, _Anthropologie der Naturvölker_, I. 466, says: ‘Considering the multitude of superhuman beings, it is certainly very natural to follow the analogy of human relations, which is often carried out with great consistency, and to assume gradations of power among them, one being regarded as the first and highest of all. But this idea may easily be rendered unfruitful through the very analogy which suggested it, because in human society the power and repute of individuals are frequently changing.’ But even this fact is not unfruitful with regard to religion; for on this analogy a world of gods with a head liable to change may be imagined. Footnote 649: Schelling’s _Sämmtliche Werke_ (Cotta’s edition, 1856), II. Abth. I, 52 (_Einleitung in die Philosophie der Mythologie_). Footnote 650: _Theogon._ vv. 882–85. Footnote 651: Palgrave, _Central and Eastern Arabia_, I. 33. Footnote 652: Von Holtzendorff in the _Zeitsch. für Völkerpsychologie etc._, 1868, V. 378. Footnote 653: Waitz, _l.c._ II. 126 _et seq._ and especially pp. 167, 439, on the religion and politics of the Negroes, and Gerland in the sixth volume of the same work (_passim_) on similar institutions among the Polynesians. Footnote 654: In Tylor, _Primitive Culture_, II. 306. Footnote 655: _Die Religion der Zukunft_, Berlin 1874, p. 102. Footnote 656: _Histoire générale etc._, p. 131. Footnote 657: Thus this much-discussed verse contains no prophecy, but a recollection of the phases of the growth of religion in past times. Footnote 658: _Voyages d’Ibn Batoutah_, I. 115 _et seq._ The jealousy with which the Mohammedans for a long time forbad Christians and Jews to visit the graves of the Patriarchs only began at the year 664 A.H. ‘L’an 664 Bibars défendit aux chrétiens et aux juifs d’entrer dans le temple de Hébron; avant cette époque ils y allaient librement, moyennant une rétribution’ (Quatremère, _Mémoire géogr. et hist. sur l’Égypte_, Paris 1841, II. 224). Footnote 659: Ibn Ḳuteybâ, _Handbuch der Geschichte_, ed. Wüstenfeld, p. 10. Footnote 660: Burton and Drake, _Unexplored Syria_, London 1872, I. 33. Footnote 661: Yâḳût, _Muʿjam_, IV. 291. 11 _et seq_. Footnote 662: _Ibid._, p. 438. 16. Footnote 663: Burton and Drake, _l.c._ p. 35. Footnote 664: Rosen in _Zeitsch. d. D. M. G._, XI. 59. Footnote 665: Yâḳût, III. 720. 3. Footnote 666: Zunz, _Geogr. Literatur der Juden_, no. 109, _Gesammelte Schriften_, I. 191. Footnote 667: Alfred von Kremer, _Mittelsyrien und Damaskus_, Vienna 1853, p. 118. Footnote 668: