The Origin of Man And of His Superstitions
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CHAPTER IV MAGIC " The histories I borrow, I refer them to the consciences of those I take them from." — Montaigne, I. 20.
§ 1. Antiquity of Magic Magic, until recently, was somewhat neglected by those who treated of savage ideas. In Sir E. B. Tylor's Primitive Culture only one chapter is given to Magic, against seven to Animism (belief in the agency of spirits). In Spencer's Sociology, Part I. is almost wholly devoted to the genesis and development of Animism, without a single chapter on Magic....
The importance of early Animism became such an obsession, that travellers observed and reported upon it wherever they went, making only casual references to Magic — much to our loss. The tradition of this way of thinking seems to run back to Hume's Natural History of Religion, where he traces the development of religion from a primitive belief that all natural activities are like our own, and that everything is possessed and actuated by a spirit. This idea was adopted by Comte, and elaborated in his celebrated law of the three stages of the explanation of Nature as determining the growth of human culture : Fetichism, which ascribes all causation to the particular will of each object, and which by general- isation leads through polytheism to monotheism; Meta- physics, which, giving up the notion of personal will, attributes the activities of things to abstract forces; and Positivism, which, discarding the variety of forces that can never be known, turns to the exact description of the order of pheno- mena.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
CHAPTER IV MAGIC " The histories I borrow, I refer them to the consciences of those I take them from." — Montaigne, I. 20.
§ 1. Antiquity of Magic Magic, until recently, was somewhat neglected by those who treated of savage ideas. In Sir E. B. Tylor's Primitive Culture only one chapter is given to Magic, against seven to Animism (belief in the agency of spirits). In Spencer's Sociology, Part I. is almost wholly devoted to the genesis and development of Animism, without a single chapter on Magic....
The importance of early Animism became such an obsession, that travellers observed and reported upon it wherever they went, making only casual references to Magic — much to our loss. The tradition of this way of thinking seems to run back to Hume's Natural History of Religion, where he traces the development of religion from a primitive belief that all natural activities are like our own, and that everything is possessed and actuated by a spirit. This idea was adopted by Comte, and elaborated in his celebrated law of the three stages of the explanation of Nature as determining the growth of human culture : Fetichism, which ascribes all causation to the particular will of each object, and which by general- isation leads through polytheism to monotheism; Meta- physics, which, giving up the notion of personal will, attributes the activities of things to abstract forces; and Positivism, which, discarding the variety of forces that can never be known, turns to the exact description of the order of pheno- mena.
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