Library, on 9 February, 1916.]
[4: "Introduction to the History of Religions," p. 486.]
[5: He might start upon this journey of adventure by reading the article
on "Incense" in Hastings' _Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics_.]
[6: Samuel Laing, "Human Origins," Revised by Edward Clodd, 1903, p.
38.]
[7: "Ancient Hunters," 2nd Edition, pp. 234 and 235.]
[8: On this subject see Elliot Smith and Pear, "Shell Shock and its
Lessons," Manchester University Press, 1917, p. 59.]
[9: An interesting discussion of this matter by the late Professor
William James will be found in his "Principles of Psychology," Vol. I,
pp. 261 _et seq._]
[10: For a fuller discussion of certain phases of this matter see my
address on "Primitive Man," in the _Proceedings of the British Academy_,
1917, especially pp. 23-50.]
[11: "The Influence of Ancient Egyptian Civilization in the East and in
America," _The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library_, Jan.-March, 1916.]
[12: "The Migrations of Early Culture," 1915, Manchester University
Press: "The Evolution of the Rock-cut Tomb and the Dolmen," _Essays and
Studies Presented to William Ridgeway_, Cambridge, 1913, p. 493:
"Oriental Tombs and Temples," _Journal of the Manchester Egyptian and
Oriental Society_, 1914-1915, p. 55.]
[13: "Ships as Evidence of the Migrations of Early Culture," Manchester
University Press, 1917, p. 37.]
[14: "Egyptian Mummies," _Journal of Egyptian Archaeology_, Vol. I, Part
III, July, 1914, p. 189.]
[15: Such, for example, as its influence in the acquisition of the means
of preserving the tissues of the body, which has played so large a part
in the development of the sciences of anatomy, pathology, and in fact
biology in general. The practice of mummification was largely
responsible for the attainment of a knowledge of the properties of many
drugs and especially of those which restrain putrefactive changes. But
it was not merely in the acquisition of a knowledge of material facts
that mummification exerted its influence. The humoral theory of
pathology and medicine, which prevailed for so many centuries and the
effects of which are embalmed for all time in our common speech, was
closely related in its inception to the ideas which I shall discuss in
these pages. The Egyptians themselves did not profit to any appreciable
extent from the remarkable opportunities which their practice of
embalming provided for studying human anatomy. The sanctity of these
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