PRIMITIVE CULTURE.

"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 pu ou du faire, mais de regarder ce qu'il fait.”

-DE BROSSES.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1871.

(Rights of Translation und 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, Transmigration

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

Animal Bodies, transference to Plants and Objects-Resurrection of

Body scarcely held in savage religion-Future Life : a general though

not universal doctrine of low races-

S-Continued existence, rather than

Immortality ; second death of Soul-Ghost of Dead remains on earth,

especially if corpse unburied ; its attachment 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-Realiza-

tion of current religious ideas, whether of savage or civilized theology,

in narratives of visits to the Regions of Souls-Localization of the Fu-

ture Life-Distant earthly region : Earthly Paradise, Isles of the Blest

-Subterranean Hades or Sheol-Sun, Moon, Stars—Heaven-Histori-

cal course of belief as to such localization-Nature of Future Life-

Continuance-theory, apparently 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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