PRIMITIVE CULTURE

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PRIMITIVE CULTURE

RESEARCHES INTO THE DEVELOPMENT
OF MYTHOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION

LANGUAGE, ART, AND CUSTOM

PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
AUTHOR OF RESEARCHES INTO THE EARLY HISTORY OF MANKIND,' ETC.

Ce n'est pas dans les possibilités, c'est dans l'homme même qu'il
faut étudier l'homme : il ne s'agit pas d'imaginer ce qu'il auroit pû
ou dû faire, mais de regarder ce qu'il fait.'-DE Brosses.

IN TWO VOLUMES

VOL. II.

FOURTH EDITION, REVISED

LONDON

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET

1903

(Rights of Translation and Reproduction reserved]

CONTENTS

OF THE SECOND VOLUME.

CHAPTER XII.

ANIMISM (continued).

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Doctrine of Soul's Existence after Death ; its main divisions, Trans-

migration and Future Life-Transmigration of Souls: re-birth in

Human and Animal Bodies, transference to Plants and Objects-

Resurrection of Body: scarcely held in savage religion-Future Life :

a general if not universal doctrine of low races—Continued exist-

ence, rather than Immortality ; second death of Soul-Ghost of

Dead remains on earth, especially if corpse unburied ; its attach-

ment to bodily remains-Feasts of the Dead .

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CHAPTER XIII.

ANIMISM (continued).

Journey of the Soul to the Land of the Dead—Visits by the Living

to the Regions of Departed Souls --Connexion of such legends

with myths of Sunset: the Land of the Dead thus imagined as

in the West--Realization of current religious ideas, whether of

savage or civilized theology, in narratives of visits to the Regions

of Souls—Localization of the Future Life--Distant earthly region :

Earthly Paradise, Isles of the Blest-Subterranean Hades or Sheol

-Sun, Moon, Stars-Heaven-Historical course of belief as to such

localization - Nature of Future Life-Continuance-theory, appar-

ently original, belongs especially to the lower races — Transitional

theories—Retribution-theory, apparently derived, belongs especially

to the higher races—Doctrine of Moral Retribution as developed

in the higher culture-Survey of Doctrine of Future State, from

savage to civilized stages-Its practical effect on the sentiment

and conduct of Mankind .

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