FOOTNOTES:
[10] Of the Divine Law, Tractatus Theologico Politicus, Spinoza.
[11] Primitive Culture, E. B. Tylor, p. 144.
[12] Professor Tylor kindly allowed me to place this statement before him, and he says that as the word Fetish, with the sense of the use of bones, claws, stones, and such objects as receptacles of spiritual influences, has had nearly two centuries of established usage, it would not be easy to set it aside, and he advises me to use the term West African religion, or in some way make my meaning clear without expecting to upset the established nomenclature of comparative ethnology.
[13] This word is pronounced by the natives and by people knowing them, Cheuwe, as Ellis undoubtedly knew, but presumably he spelt it Tshi to please the authorities.
[14] The Vocation of the Hebrews, Spinoza.
[15] See Travels in West Africa, by M. H. Kingsley. Macmillan & Co. 1897.
[16] For further details see Travels in West Africa, p. 444.
[17] “Origins and Interpretations of Primitive Religions.” Edinburgh Review, July, 1897, p. 219.
[18] The Tshi Speaking, Ewe Speaking and Yoruba Speaking People of West Africa.—A. B. Ellis.