The Open Court 20, No.607
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Herbert Spencer, in his descriptive and other works on sociology, has well condensed the facts in regard to these beliefs, and shown how they arose from plain misapprehensions in regard to the breath (spirit or ghost), the air, winds, echoes, reflec- tions, shadows, mists, clouds, motions, thoughts, feelings, will- actions, dreams, sleep, faintings, trances, and above all the sense 96 THE OPEN COURT.
of will and selfhood. Hence have grown up all of the religions of the world : animistic, with t...heir ancestral fetishism ; astrolatry ; poly- theism, and monotheism — culminating in Christianity, Islamism, Spiritualism and Mormonism — all one vast mass of illusions and errors, transfused by empirical social and moral truths and customs of value.
The chief of those illusions, out of which all of these "spook- religions" grew, and upon which they still rest, were: (1) The geocentric astronomy, which was the natural and common belief of the race until reversed by the Copernican or heliocentric astronomy in or about 1600 A.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Herbert Spencer, in his descriptive and other works on sociology, has well condensed the facts in regard to these beliefs, and shown how they arose from plain misapprehensions in regard to the breath (spirit or ghost), the air, winds, echoes, reflec- tions, shadows, mists, clouds, motions, thoughts, feelings, will- actions, dreams, sleep, faintings, trances, and above all the sense 96 THE OPEN COURT.
of will and selfhood. Hence have grown up all of the religions of the world : animistic, with t...heir ancestral fetishism ; astrolatry ; poly- theism, and monotheism — culminating in Christianity, Islamism, Spiritualism and Mormonism — all one vast mass of illusions and errors, transfused by empirical social and moral truths and customs of value.
The chief of those illusions, out of which all of these "spook- religions" grew, and upon which they still rest, were: (1) The geocentric astronomy, which was the natural and common belief of the race until reversed by the Copernican or heliocentric astronomy in or about 1600 A.
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