The Religion of the PrimitivesMacmillan, 1922 - 334 sider |
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Abbé according Africa alliance ancestors ancient Andrew Lang animal appear Bantu languages Bantus beliefs black country Blacks blood body Bwiti called Catholic ceremonies chief Christian civilization consecrated dead death divinity earth elements especially everything everywhere evil evolution existence exogamy explain fact father fetich forest Gabon genii Giryama give Gustave Le Bon heaven history of religions idea initiation invisible world J. G. Frazer language less ligion living Loango magic manes Massai matter means morality Mulungu mysterious mythology myths natives nature Negrillos Negritos numerous object offer organization origin person philosophy populations practices prayers precise present Pygmies Quatrefages question race reason Reinach relations religious Réville Rundi sacred sacrifice savage scholars secret societies social sorcerers sort speak spirits supernatural suppose Swahili taboo theory things Tiele tion to-day totem tree tribes Tylor village Waka word worship
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Side 290 - Owe no man anything, but to love one another : for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet ; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Side 73 - A totem is a class of material objects which a savage regards with superstitious respect, believing that there exists between him and every member of the class an intimate and altogether special relation...
Side 42 - These three distinct stages of progress from the inorganic world of matter and motion up to man, point clearly to an unseen universe — to a world of spirit, to which the world of matter is altogether subordinate.
Side 288 - fortuitous concourse of atoms" is certainly not wholly inappropriate for the growth of a crystal. But modern scientific men are in agreement with him in condemning it as utterly absurd, in respect to the coming into existence, or the growth, or the continuation of the molecular combinations presented in the bodies of living things. Here scientific thought is compelled to accept the idea of a Creative Power.
Side 215 - Belief in a certain series of myths was neither obligatory as a part of true religion, nor was it supposed that, by believing, a man acquired religious merit and conciliated the favour of the gods. What was obligatory or meritorious was the exact performance of certain sacred acts prescribed by religious tradition.
Side 288 - No, no more than I could believe that a book of botany describing them could grow by mere chemical forces.
Side 290 - Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shall not covet ; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour ; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Side 54 - If any relics of such imagination survive in civilised mythology, they will very closely resemble the productions of a once universal " temporary insanity ". Let it be granted, then, that " to the lower tribes of man, sun and stars, trees and rivers, winds and clouds, become personal, animate creatures, leading lives conformed to human or animal analogies, and performing their special functions in the universe with the aid of limbs like beasts, or of artificial instruments like men...
Side 319 - But more surprising than the continuity in the growth of language, is the continuity in the growth of religion. Of religion, too, as of language, it may be said that in it everything new is old and everything old is new, and that there has been no entirely new religion since the beginning of the world.
Side 42 - Because man's physical structure has been developed from an animal form by natural selection, it does not necessarily follow that his mental nature, even though developed pari passu with it, has been developed by the same causes only.