The Psychological Origin and the Nature of ReligionLeuba, James H. (James Henry)
Religion
The Psychological Origin and the Nature of Religion
Leuba, James H. (James Henry)
Magic; Psychology, Religious
[30] Frazer, _The Golden Bough_, 2nd ed., I. pp. 29-31.
[31] Fourth ed. (1903), i. p. 285.
[32] The word _naturism_ should be adopted as a name for the pre-animistic
and pre-religious stage of culture, a stage corresponding to the one
through which a child passes before he inquires into hidden causes and
mechanisms. See on this an excellent little book published in this series,
_Animism_, by Edward Clodd, pp. 22-25.
[33] Lord Avebury, _On the Origin of Civilisation_ (3rd ed., 1875), pp.
113-114.
[34] _The Golden Bough_, i. p. 19.
[35] Maspero, _loc. cit._, pp. 298-299.
[36] Amélie Bosquet, _La Normandie romanesque et merveilleuse_ (Paris et
Rouen, 1845), p. 308.
[37] _Loc. cit._ i., pp. 75-78.
[38] A widespread opinion ascribes the failures of the magician to a rival
or to the counter-influence of some evil spirit.
'If a man died in spite of the medicine-man, they [the Chepara of
South-East Africa] said it was Wulle, an evil being, that killed
him.'--Howitt, _loc. cit._, p. 385.
[39] Chap. iii.
[40] _Ibid._, p. 59.
[41] R. R. Marett, 'From Spell to Prayer,' _Folk-Lore_, xv. (1904), pp.
132-165.
[42] _Loc. cit._, pp. 61-62. In the third volume (pp. 458-461), a change
seems to have taken place in the author's opinion. What it amounts to, I
cannot exactly make out.
[43] _The Psychology of the Emotions_, p. 309.
[44] _The Religion of the Semites_, p. 55.
[45] See, on this development, my article, 'Fear, Awe, and the Sublime in
Religion,' _American Jr. of Religious Psy. and Educ._, ii. p. 1.
[46] _Magic and Religion_, pp. 48-49, 69.
[47] 'On some Australian Customs of Initiation,' _Jr. of the Anthrop.
Inst._, xiii. (1883-1884), p. 459.
[48] F. Harrison, _Moral and Religious Socialism_, New Year's Address,
1891.
[49] A. Comte, _Catéchisme Positiviste_, ed. Apostolique (1891), pp. 53,
55.
[50] _Natural Religion_, Macmillan (1882), p. 74.
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