Animism the Seed of Religion

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Fear a Constant everything fell into his personifying in line of thought. The greater and Animism. J esger lihtg that trave u e( j acrO ss the 24 Pausanias, vol. Ii. Pp. 371, 2. 44 FEAR A CONSTANT ELEMENT IN ANIMISM sky ; the lightning flash, and the thunder clap ; the clouds that rolled along majestically, or that broke into ragged clusters ; the wind that moaned among the swaying branches or bending trunks ; the earthquake that swallowed man and beast ; the volcano belching fire ; the mysteri...ous fire itself that dissolved things into smoke and left but a handful of ashes ; the tumbling, treacherous seas and the swift, engulfing rivers ; these, and a thousand other sights and sounds and move- ments, man interpreted in terms which had their correspondence in himself. Ignorant of the law of reflection of sound, how else could he account for the echoes flung back from the hillside ? Ignorant of the law of the interception of light, how else could he explain the advancing and re- treating shadows I In some sense they must be alive ; an inference supported by modern physics, which, in the words of Herbert Spencer, allows " the thought that consciousness in some rudi- mentary form is omnipresent.

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