[1] “Religion,” observes Professor Toy, “must be treated as a product of human thought, as a branch of Sociology, subject to all the laws that control general human progress.”—Judaism and Christianity, p. 1.
[2] Rev. John M. Neale, History of the Holy Eastern Church, vol. i., p. 37.
[3] Granger, The Worship of the Romans, p. vii.
[4] A. H. Post, Grundriss der ethnologischen Jurisprudenz, Bd. i., s. 4.
[5] The Science of Fairy Tales, p. 2.
[6] Zeitschrift für Völkerpsychologie, Bd. xi., s. 124.
[7] J. J. Honegger, Allgemeine Culturgeschichte, Bd. i., s. 332. “Similar conceptions,” observes Professor Bastian, “repeat themselves, under fixed laws, in localities wide apart, in ages far remote.”—Grundzüge der Ethnologie, p. 73.
[8] E. M. Curr, The Australian Race, vol. i., p. 50.
[9] W. P. Clark, U. S. A., Indian Sign Language, p. 241.
[10] This subject is fully discussed by Flügel, Zeit. für. Völkerpsychologie, Bd. xi.; by Prof. James Sully in his Studies of Childhood; and by Dr. Friedmann, Centralblatt für Anthropologie, Bd. i. The last mentioned argues that the mind of the savage has more points of resemblance to the insane than to the child mind. The higher emotional susceptibility of savages can be illustrated by abundant examples.