[21] Death was to the Roman the somnum eternale. Prof. Sayce remarks of the ancient Chaldeans that they had no definite belief in an after life.—Hibbert Lectures, p. 358.
[22] The question has been carefully examined by G. Roskoff in his work Das Religionswesen der Rohesten Naturvölker (Leipzig, 1880). He conclusively refutes the assertions that tribes have been encountered without religion.
[23] Calloway, Religious System of the Amazulus, p. 113.
[24] Rev. W. Y. Turner in Jour. Anthrop. Institute, vol. vii., p. 492.
[25] Medicine Men of the Apache, pp. 499, 500.
[26] The question is carefully discussed by Hoernes, Urgeschichte des Menschen, p. 93, sq., who disputes Mortillet’s opinion. The latter is given in his Préhistorique Antiquité de l’Homme, p. 603, sq.
[27] The Descent of Man, p. 95.
[28] Quoted in L’Anthropologie, vol. viii., p. 334.
[29] Granger, Religion of the Romans, p. 21; Thiele, Hist. of the Egyptian Religion, Introd.
[30] Dr. Schwaner, in H. Ling Roth, The Natives of Sarawak, vol. ii., App. p. clxii.