[1544] § 6 f.
[1545] Cf. Lord Avebury, Marriage, Totemism, and Religion, p. 135.
[1546] Alexander, Short History of the Hawaiian People.
[1547] Jastrow, Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, p. 263.
[1548] Matthews, Navaho Legends, p. 36.
[1549] Cf. W. R. Smith, Religion of the Semites, lecture iii.
[1550] Teit, Thompson River Indians, p. 53 f.
[1551] 1 Cor. x, 20 f.
[1552] Certain ceremonies of the higher religions produce effects that must be regarded as magical.
[1553] Lubbock, Origin of Civilization, p. 188. Similar logic appears in the story of the origin of Goodwin Sands, told by Bishop Latimer (in a sermon preached before Edward VI). An old man, being asked what he thought was the cause of the Sands, replied that he had lived near there, man and boy, fourscore years, and before the neighboring steeple was built there was no Sands, and therefore his opinion was that the steeple was the cause of the Sands.