e is to describe the principal customs and ideas
that underlie all public religion; the details are selected from a large
mass of material, which is increasing in bulk year by year. References
to the higher religions are introduced for the purpose of illustrating
lines of progress.

The analytic table of contents and the index are meant to supplement
each other, the one giving the outline of the discussion, the other
giving the more important particulars; the two together will facilitate
the consultation of the book. In the selected list of works of reference
the titles are arranged, as far as possible, in chronological order, so
as to indicate in a general way the progress of investigation in the
subjects mentioned.

My thanks are due to the publishers for the care they have taken in the
printing of the volume, and to their proofreaders, particularly to the
chief proofreader, for not a few helpful suggestions.

C. H. T.

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS

CONTENTS

(The Arabic figures in the chapter summaries refer to paragraphs)

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CHAPTER I. NATURE OF RELIGION 1

Science and religion coeval, 1; Man's sense of dependence on
mysterious Powers, 2; Early man's feeling toward them of a
mixed nature, 3; mainly selfish, 4; Prominence of fear, 6;
Conception of natural law, 7; Sense of an extrahuman
Something, 9; Universality of religion, 10; Its development
parallel to that of social organization, 12; Unitary
character of human life, 14; External religion, 15; Internal
religion, 16.

CHAPTER II. THE SOUL 10

NATURE OF THE SOUL. Universal belief in an interior
something, 18; its basis, 19; from observation of breath,
21; of shadow, 22; of blood, 23; Its form a sublimated
double of the corporeal man, 24; or of an animal, 25; The
seat of the soul, 26; Localization of qualities, 27;
Consequences of the soul's leaving the body, 29; The hidden
soul, 31.

ORIGIN OF THE SOUL. Not investigated by savages, 32;
Creation of man, 33; Theories of birth, 34; Divine origin of
the soul, 36; Mysteriousness of death, 38.

POLYPSYCHISM. Early views of the number and functions of
souls, 39; Civilized views, 43.

FUTURE OF THE SOUL. Belief in its death, 46; This belief
transient, 51-53; Dwelli