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Page 4 - The Law of Causation, the recognition of which is the main pillar of inductive science, is but the familiar truth that invariability of succession is found by observation to obtain between every fact in nature and some other fact which has preceded It...
Page 13 - Change of motion is proportional to the impressed force and takes place in the direction of the straight line in which the force acts.
Page 18 - No religion of mankind lies in utter isolation from the rest, and the thoughts and principles of modern Christianity are attached to intellectual clues which run back through far prae-Christian ages to the very origin of human civilization, perhaps even of human existence.
Page 23 - There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts.
Page 18 - Though the theoretical niche is ready and convenient, the actual statue to fill it is not forthcoming. The case is in some degree similar to that of the tribes asserted to exist without language or without the use of fire ; nothing in the nature of tilings seems to forbid the possibility of such existence, but as a matter .of fact the tribes -are not found.
Page 23 - Animism is, in fact, the groundwork of the Philosophy of Religion, from that of savages up to that of civilized men.
Page 18 - ... as a matter of fact the tribes are not found. Thus the assertion that rude nonreligious tribes have been known in actual existence, though in theory possible, and perhaps in fact true, does not at present rest on that sufficient proof which, for an exceptional state of things, we are entitled to demand."— Primitive Culture, i.
Page 23 - ... the Idea of God, 42. Brinton says: "I shall tell you of religions so crude as to have no temples or altars, no rites or prayers; but I can tell you of none that does not teach the belief of the intercommunion of the spiritual powers and man." — Religions of Primitive Peoples, 50. D'Alviella says : "The discoveries of the last five-and-twenty years, especially in the caves of France and Belgium, have established conclusively that as early as the mammoth age man practiced funeral rites, believed...
Page 24 - ... straight-haired, curly-haired, woolly-haired- races; among, white, tawny, copper-coloured, black. And we find it among peoples who have made no advances in civilization as well as among the semi-civilized and the civilized.
Page 23 - The direct communion between the human and the divine mind, between the Man and God, is the one trait shared by the highest as well as the lowest; it is the one proof of authenticity which each proclaims for itself. I shall tell you of religions so crude as to have no temples or altars, no rites or prayers ; but I can tell you of none that does not teach the belief of the intercommunion of the spiritual powers and man.