This is one cause of the dissolution of Animism: the power that comprehends all powers ceases to be an object, and becomes the immanence of all things, good and evil. Another cause is the complexity of theogonies, or of spiritual kingdoms with their orders and degrees: found too fanciful, when hierarchic despotisms, that furnished the analogues, give place to the simpler social structure of democracies; or, to a certain type of democrat, even insulting, a provocative disparagement of the sovereignty of the people. And Animism has other enemies in the growth of Positivism, and sometimes in the resurgence of Magic. FOOTNOTES: [155] _The Veddas_, pp. 126-7. [156] _Northern Tribes of Central Australia_, p. 170. [157] _The Land of Zing_, p. 219. [158] J. O. Dorsey, _American Bureau of Ethnology_, 1889-90, XI. p. 419. [159] Mariner’s _Tonga_, p. 105. [160] _Myth, Ritual and Religion_, p. 48. [161] _African Game Trails_, p. 333. [162] _Outdoor Pastimes_, p. 77. [163] Frazer, _Spirits of the Corn and the Wild_, I. p. 183. [164] _The Melanesians_, pp. 249 and 356. [165] _Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula_, II. p. 222. [166] _Pagan Tribes of Borneo_, II. p. 3. [167] _Camp and Tramp in African Wilds_, p. 174. [168] _The Primitive Bakongo_, p. 283. [169] _Among Congo Cannibals_, p. 275. [170] _Among the Indians of Guiana_, p. 355. [171] _Two Years with the Natives of the West Pacific_, p. 199. As to waterspouts and shooting stars, see the _Reports of the Cambridge Expedition to Torres Straits_, VI. p. 252. [172] J. Hernell in the _Quarterly Journal of the Mythical Society_ (Bangalore), IV. No. 4, p. 158. [173] A. A. Macdonell, _Sanskrit Literature_, p. 112. [174] J. Mooney in _Reports of the American Bureau of Ethnology_, 1885-6, VII. p. 341. [175] J. E. Bourke in the _Reports of the American Bureau of Ethnology_, 1887-8, IX. pp. 499-507. [176] E. F. im Thurn, _Among the Indians of Guiana_, pp. 288, 354. [177] _Principles of Sociology_, Vol. I. chs. viii.-xii. [178] _Primitive Culture_, chs. xi., xii. [179] J. H. Weeks, _Among Congo Cannibals_, pp. 262-3. My friend, Mr. Torday, tells me this belief is very common in Africa. [180] See, _e. g._, A. W. Howitt, _Native Tribes of South-East Australia_, p. 406; and P. A. Talbot, _In the Shadow of the Bush_, pp. 83-8. [181] _Indians of Guiana_, p. 344. [182] S. H. C. Hawtrey, “The Lengua Indians,” _J.A.I._, 1901. [183] J. Mooney, “Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees,” _Am. B. of Ethn._, VII. p. 352. [184] C. G. Seligman, _Melanesians of British New Guinea_, pp. 190-91. [185] S. H. Ray, “People and Language of Lifu,” _J.R.A.I._, LXVII. p. 296. [186] Turner, _Samoa_, p. 277. [187] A. W. Howitt, _op. cit._, p. 358. [188] Spencer, _Principles of Sociology_, § 53. [189] J. H. Weeks, _The Primitive Bakongo_, p. 238. [190] J. H. Weeks, _Among Congo Cannibals_, p. 233. [191] T. C. Hodson, _The Naga Tribes of Manipur_, p. 160. [192] Coddrington, _The Melanesians_, p. 269.