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The question has to be raised, to which of these three categories it belongs :-is it a product of the earlier theology, yet sound enough to maintain a rightful place in the later?— is it derived from a cruder original, yet so modified as to become a proper representative of more advanced views ?-is it a survival from a lower stage of thought, imposing on the credit of the higher by virtue not of inherent truth but of ancestral belief? These are queries the very asking of which starts trains of thought which candid minds should be encouraged to pursue, leading as they do toward the attainment of such measure of truth as the intellectual condition of our age fits us to assimilate. In the scientific study of religion, which now shows signs of becoming for many a year an engrossing subject of the world's thought, the decision must not rest with a council in which the theologian, the metaphysician, the biologist, the physicist, exclusively take part. The historian and the ethnographer must be called upon to show the hereditary standing of each opinion and practice, and their enquiry must go back as far as antiquity or savagery can show a vestige, for there seems no human thought so primitive as to have lost its bearing on our own thought, nor so ancient as to have broken its connection with our own life.

It is our happiness to live in one of those eventful periods of intellectual and moral history, when the oft-closed gates of discovery and reform stand open at their widest. How long these good days may last, we cannot tell. It may be that the increasing power and range of the scientific method, with its stringency of argument and constant check of fact, may start the world on a more steady and continuous course of progress than it has moved on heretofore. But if history is to repeat itself according to precedent, we must look forward to stiffer duller ages of traditionalists and commentators, when the great thinkers of our time will be appealed to as authorities by men who slavishly accept their tenets, yet cannot or dare not follow their methods through better evidence to higher ends. In either case, it is for those

among us whose minds are set on the advancement of civilization, to make the most of present opportunities, that even when in future years progress is arrested, it may be arrested at the higher level. To the promoters of what is sound and reformers of what is faulty in modern culture, ethnography has double help to give. To impress men's minds with a doctrine of development, will lead them in all honour to their ancestors to continue the progressive work of past ages, to continue it the more vigorously because light has increased in the world, and where barbaric hordes groped blindly, cultured men can often move onward with clear view. It is a harsher, and at times even painful, office of ethnography to expose the remains of crude old culture which have passed into harmful superstition, and to mark these out for destruction. Yet this work, if less genial, is not less urgently needful for the good of mankind. Thus, active at once in aiding progress and in removing hindrance, the science of culture is essentially a reformer's science.

INDEX.

Abacus, i. 270.
Accent, i. 173.
Acephali, i. 390.

Achilles :-vulnerable spot, i. 358;
dream, 444; in Hades, ii. 81.
Acosta, on American archetypal
deities, ii. 244.

Adam, ii. 312, 315.

Ælian, i 372,

423;

on Kyno-

kephali, i. 389.
olus, i. 361, ii. 29.
Esculapius:-incbation in temple,
ii. 121; serpents of, ii. 241.
Affirmative an negative particles,

i. 192.

Afghans, rac genealogy of, i. 403.
Agni, ii. 281, 386.

Agreement in custom and opinion

no proof of soundness, i. 13.
Agriculture, god of, ii. 305.
Ahriman, ii. 328.

Ahura-Mazda, ii. 283, 328, 355:
Alexan fer the Great, i. 395, ii. 138.
Alfonso di Liguori, St., bilocation

of, 447.

Alger, R., i. 471, 484, ii. 83.
Algonquin languages, animate and
inanimate genders, i. 302.
Alias Thunder-god, ii. 264.
All ou', feast of dead, ii. 37.
Allegor, i. 277, 408.

Aldysi Gonzaga, St., letters to, ii.

22.

Alphabet, i. 171; by raps, i. 145;
as numeral series, i. 258.
Aatongo, i. 443, ii. 115, 131, 313,
1357.387.

Ameni, Egyptian dead-land, ii. 67,
81 96, 295, 311.
Amphidromia, ii. 439.

Anegy, myth product of, i. 297.
Ancestors, eponymic myths of, i.
398, ii. 234; worship of divine,
ii. 113, 311; see Manes-worship,
Totem-worship.

Ancestral names indicate re-birth
of souls, ii. 5.

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of, i. 369, 389.

Angang, omen from meeting animal,
i, 120.

Angel, see Spirit; of death, i. 295,
ii. 196, 322.

Angelo, St., legend of, i. 295.
Anima, animus, i. 433, 470.
Animals :-omens from, i. 120; calls
to and cries of, 177; imitative
names from cries, &c., 206; treated
as human, i. 467, ii. 230; souls of,
i. 469; future life and funeral sac-
rifice of, i. 469, ii. 75, &c.; entry
and transmigration of souls into
and possession by spirits, ii. 7, 152,
161, 175, 231, 241, 378, &c.; dis-
eases transferred to, ii. 147; see
spirits invisible to men, ii. 196.
Animals, sacred, incarnations or re-
presentatives of deities, ii. 231;'
receive and consume sacrifices,

378.
Animal-worship, i. 467, ii. 229, 378.
Animism :-defined, i. 23, 425; is the
philosophy of religion, i. 426, ii.
356; is a primitive scientific sys-
tem of man and nature based on
the conception of the human soul,
i. 428, 499, ii. 108, 184, 356; its
stages of development, survival,
and decline, i. 499, ii. 181, 356.
See Soul, Spirit, &c., &c.
Anra-Mainyu, ii. 328.
Antar, tumulus of, ii. 29.
Anthropomorphic conceptions of
spirit and deity, ii. 110, 184, 247
335-

Antipodes, i. 392.

Ape-men, i. 379; apes degenerate
men, 376; can but will not talk,
379.

Apollo, ii. 294.

Apophis-serpent, ii. 241.
Apotheosis, ii. 120.

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Aryan race-no savage tribe among,
i. 49; antiquity of culture, i. 54.
Ascendant in horoscope, i. 129.
Ashera, worship of, ii. 166, 226.
Ashes strewn for spirit-footprints, i.
455, ii. 197.
Asmodeus, ii. 254.

Association of ideas, foundation of
magic, i. 116.
Astrology, i. 128, 291.

Atahentsic, ii. 299, 309, 323.
Atahocan, ii. 323, 340.

Atavism, explained by transmigra-
tion, ii. 3.

Atheist, use of word, i. 420.

Augury, &c., i. 119. See ii. 179, 232.
Augustine, St., i. 199, 441, ii. 54,
427; on dreams, i. 441; on incubi,
ii. 190.

Augustus, genius of, ii. 202.
Avatars, ii. 239.

Avernus, Lake, ii. 45.
Ayenbite of Inwyt, i. 456.

Baal-Shemesh, ii. 295.

Bacon, Lord, on allegory, i. 277.
Bætyls, animated stones, ii. 166.
Baku, burning wells of, ii. 281.
Baldr, i. 464.

Bale, Bishop, i. 384; on witchcraft,

i. 142.
Bands, clerical, i. 18.

Baptism, ii. 440; orientation in, 427.
Baring-Gould, S., on werewolves, i.
314.

Bastian, Adolf, Mensch in der Ge-
schichte, i. vi.; ii. 209, 222, 242,
280, &c.

Baudet, etymology of, i. 413.
Beal, ii. 252, 408.

Bear, Great,

359-

Beast-fables, i. 381, 409.

Bees, telling, i. 287.

Bel, ii. 293, 380, 384.

Berkeley, Bishop, on ideas, i. 499;
on force and matter, ii. 160.
Bewitching by objects, i. 116.
Bible and key, ordeal by, i. 128.
Bilocation, i. 447.

Bird, of thunder, i. 362; bird con-
veys spirit, ii. 161, 175.
Blackstone's Commentaries, i. 20.
Blemmyæ, headless men, i. 390.
Blood:-related to soul, i. 431; re-

vives ghosts, ii. 48; offered to
deities, 381; substitute for life,

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Boehme, Jacob, o's primitive
knowledge, ii. 18
Bolotu, ii. 22, 62, 31k
Boni Homines, i 77-
Book of Dead, Egyption, 3, 96.
Boomerang, i. 67.
Boreas, i. 362, ii. 268.
Bosjesman, etymology o
381.

Bow and Arrow, i. 7, 15, 64, 73-
Brahma, ii. 354, 425.
Brahmanism :-funeral rites,
&c.; transmigration, ii.
97; manes-worship, 11
worship, 164; idolat
animal-worship, 238; un
ship, 292; orientation, 425;
tion, 437.

465,

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Breath, its relation to soul,
Bride-capture, game of, i. 72
Bridge, first crossing, i. 106
dead, i. 495, ii. 50, 94, 100, &c
Brinton, D. G., i. 53, 361
340; on dualistic myths,
Britain, eponymic kings of,
voyage of souls to, ii. 64.
Brosses, C. de, on degeneration
development, i. 36; origin of la
guage, 161; fetishism, i
species-deities, 246.

Browne, Sir Thos., on magnetr
mountain, i. 375.

Brutus, evil genius of, ii. 203.

Brynhild, i. 465.

Buck, buck, game of, i. 74.,

Buddha, transmigrations of

ii. 11.

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