[267] See above, pp. [100] and [119]-[24].
[268] Hume, Inquiry, § vii.
[269] A. H. Sayce, Religion of the Ancient Babylonians, p. 398.
[270] Book II. p. 82; Rawlinson’s Translation.
[271] Vol. I. ch. iv.
[272] But see the footnote at p. 235 of The Magic Art, I.: “faith in magic is probably older than the belief in spirits.” In the same note, a passage in Hegel’s Philosophy of Religion is referred to as anticipating the doctrine of the priority of Magic to Religion. The passage, as translated in an appendix (pp. 423-6), shows, however, no conception of Magic as akin to natural law, as it is described in several passages of The Golden Bough, but treats it as a belief in any human being “as the ruling power over nature in virtue of his own will.” This is rather an anticipation of Prof. Wundt’s doctrine concerning Sorcery; which Hegel seems not to have distinguished from Magic. I need hardly add that a belief in any human being as the ruling power over nature in virtue of his own will has never been discovered in any part of the world.
[273] Op. cit., pp. 237-9.
[274] Primitive Culture, I. 116.
[275] R. H. Coddrington, The Melanesians, p. 125.
[276] H. A. Giles, Chinese Literature, p. 202.