The Making of Religion

by Andrew Lang

So far, then, the nature of things and of the reasoning faculty does not seem to give the lie to the old Degeneration theory.

To these conclusions, as far as they are matters of scientific opinion, we have been led by nothing but the study of anthropology.

[Footnote 1: Myths of the New World, p. 44.]

[Footnote 2: Prim. Cult. i. 35.]

[Footnote 3: Introduction, p. 199; also p. 161.]

[Footnote 4: Prim. Cult. ii. 360,361.]

[Footnote 5: Prof. Menzies, History of Religion, p. 23.]

[Footnote 6: [Greek: legomenai theion anagchai.] Porphyry.]

[Footnote 7: Ixtlilochitl. Balboa, Hist. du Pérou, p. 62.]

[Footnote 8: Robertson Smith, Religion of the Semites, pp. 104, 105.]