The Origin of Man and of His SuperstitionsRead, Carveth
Philosophy
The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions
Read, Carveth
Animism; Human beings -- Origin; Magic; Superstition; Totemism
[53] See the _Report of the British Association_, 1900, pp. 711-30. The
author has since then revised his estimates, assigning much greater
depth to the Pliocene and Miocene deposits and proportionally more
time for their formation. See the _Quarterly Journal of the Geological
Society_, LXV. (1909).
[54] Dr. Smith Woodward’s reconstruction gives the skull of Eoanthropus
a capacity of about 1300 c.c.
[55] See Ray Lankester’s _Description of the Test-Specimen_. R.A.I.,
_Occasional Papers_, No. 4.
[56] Book VII. chs. 69, 71, 74.
[57] E. Thompson Seton, _The Arctic Prairies_, pp. 304 and 352.
[58] _Op. cit._, pp. 151, 239, 476.
[59] _Antiquity of Man_, p. 268.
[60] A. Keith, _op. cit._, p. 408.
[61] _Op. cit._, p. 452.
[62] _Op. cit._, p. 414.
[63] _Cultes, Mythes et Religion_, III. p. 430.
[64] _Primitive Marriage_, ch. iii.
[65] _Life Histories of Northern Animals_, p. 757.
[66] See above, § 3 (4), footnote, p. 37.
[67] Spencer and Gillen, _Across Australia_, p. 198.
[68] G. W. Stone, _Native Races of South Africa_, p. 33.
[69] _Descent of Man_, ch. iii.
[70] E. Thompson Seton, _Life Histories of Northern Animals_, p. 769.
[71] E. Westermarck, _Origin and Development of Moral Ideas_, II. p. 52.
[72] Spencer and Gillen, _Native Tribes of Northern Territory of
Australia_, p. 27.
[73] _Royal Natural History_, I. pp. 72-3.
[74] _Descent of Man_, ch. iii.
[75] Spencer and Gillen, _Across Australia_, p. 200.
[76] _Principles of Sociology_, Vol. II.
[77] _Anthropoid Apes_, pp. 294-5.
[78] _Descent of Man_, ch. iv.
[79] _Sermons on Human Nature._
[80] _The Herd Instinct._
[81] Tylor, _Primitive Culture_, II. p. 89.
[82] A. Keith, _op. cit._, p. 429.
[83] G. M. Theal, _History and Ethnology of South Africa_, p. 11.
[84] G. W. Stone, _Native Races of South Africa_, p. 76.
CHAPTER III
BELIEF AND SUPERSTITION
§ 1. SUPERSTITION
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