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f the Old Testament conception of immortality. His discussion is valuable if not convincing. [75] 1 Kings xxii, 21 f. [76] For the New Testament usage see 1 Cor. vi, 17; 2 Cor. iv, 21; xii, 18; Luke ix, 53 (in some MSS.); Rev. xix, 10; John vi, 63. Cf. Grimm, _Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament_, ed. J. H. Thayer, s. vv. _pneuma_ and _psyche_. [77] Cf. Rohde, _Psyche_, 3d ed., i, 45 n.; ii, 141, n. 2. [78] In philosophical thought the two are sometimes distinguished: the _anima_ is the principle of life, and the _animus_ of thinking mind (Lucretius, iii, 94-141). [79] A curious resemblance to the cult of the 'genius' is found in the E['w]e (Dahomi) custom of consecrating a man's birthday to his "indwelling spirit" (A. B. Ellis, _The E['w]e-speaking Peoples_, 105). Compare Horace's designation of the genius as 'naturae deus humanae' (_Ep._ ii, 2, 188), and Servius on Verg., _Georg._ i, 302. [80] So in Plato and Aristotle, and in Brahmanism. [81] The evidence for this belief is found in hundreds of books that record observations of savage ideas, and it is unnecessary to cite particular examples. [82] Ellis, _The E['w]e-speaking Peoples_, p. 108. Cf. Hinde, _The Last of the Masai_, p. 99. [83] D. Macdonald, _Africana_, i, 58 f. [84] _Journal of the Anthropological Institute_, x, 283; cf. Codrington, _Melanesians_, p. 277. [85] Rink, _Tales of the Eskimo_, p. 36. [86] See above, Sec. 41. [87] Thomas Williams, _Fiji_, i, 244. Cf. W. Ellis, _Polynesian Researches_, i, 303. [88] Gill, _Myths and Songs from the South Pacific_, p. 160. [89] _Journal of the Anthropological Institute_, xix, 118 f. [90] Jarves, _History of the Sandwich Islands_, p. 42. Cf. Tylor, _Primitive Culture_, 2d ed., ii, 22 f., and Codrington, _The Melanesians_ p. 256 ff. [91] Hopkins, _Religions of India_, p. 530 f. [92] Kingsley, _Travels_, p. 444. [93] _Polynesian Researches_, p. 218. [94] Maspero, _Dawn of Civilization_, pp. 112, 185. [95] _Tailtiriya Brahmana_, 3, 11, 8, 5; _Catapatha Brahmana_, 12, 9, 3, 12. Cf. Bloomfield, _Religion of the Veda_, p. 253. [96] The same remark holds of later conceptions of the departed soul and of deities. [97] Mariner, _Tonga_, pp. 328, 343. Gods also die, as in the Egyptian religious creed (Maspero, _Dawn of Civilization_, p. 111), in Greek myths and folk-beliefs (
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