...deals with religion as summarily as he has dealt with the higher faculties of the human mind : — ' The same high mental faculties which first led man...powers remained poorly developed, to various strange and superstitions customs. Many of these are terrible to think of — such as the sacrificing of human...

...one or more gods ;" the natural result of the activity of man's mental faculties being to lead him "to believe in unseen spiritual agencies, then in...fetishism, polytheism, and ultimately in monotheism." Finally, Mr Darwin gives it as his opinion that the feeling of religious devotion in man is the ultimate...

...his master, associated with complete submission, some fear, and, perhaps, other feelings." .... 3. " The same high mental faculties which first led man...developed, to various strange superstitions and customs." 4. " It is obvious that every one may with an easy conscience gratify his own desires if they do not...

...difficult to understand how it arose." The savage has a stronger belief in bad spirits than in good ones. " The same high mental faculties which first led man...his reasoning powers remained poorly developed, to very strange superstitions and customs. Many of these are terrible to think of: such as the sacrifice...

...every action. Professor Braubach goes so far as to maintain that a dog looks on his master as on a god. The same high mental faculties which first led man to believe in unseen spiritual agencies, then in fetichism, polytheism, and ultimately in monotheism, would infallibly lead him, as long as his reasoning...

...agencies, then in fetichiem, polytheism, and ultimately in monotheism, would infallibly lead him, so long as his reasoning powers remained poorly developed, to various strange superstitions and customs." f Thus Darwin * "Principles of Sociology," pp. 106-109. •f- "Descent of Man, voL i, p. 66. justly...

...agencies, then in fetichism, polytheism, and ultimately in monotheism, would infallibly lead him, so long as his reasoning powers remained poorly developed, to various strange superstitions and customs." 2 Thus Darwin justly considers the character of the very aberrations of the human intellect in its...

...agencies, then in fetichism, polytheism, and ultimately in monotheism, would infallibly lead him, so long as his reasoning powers remained poorly developed, to various strange superstitions and customs."2 Thus Darwin justly considers the character of the very aberrations of the human intellect...

...agencies, then in fetichism, polytheism, and ultimately in monotheism, would infallibly lead him, so long as his reasoning powers remained poorly developed, to various strange superstitions and customs."2 Thus Darwin justly considers the character of the very aberrations of the human intellect...

...conceptions. As Mr. Darwin remarks, " The same high mental faculties which first led man to believe .... would infallibly lead him, as long as his reasoning...developed, to various strange superstitions and customs." This degeneration from the higher level, Mr. Darwin compares to the occasional mistakes "in the instincts...