[141] Among others who have adopted this conception may be cited Renan. See his Nouvelles études d'histoire religieuse, 1884, p. 31.
[142] Aside from the Comparative Mythology, the works where Max Müller has exposed his general theories on religion are: Hibbert Lectures (1878) under the title The Origin and Development of Religion; Natural Religion (1889); Physical Religion (1890); Anthropological Religion (1892); Theosophy, or Psychological Religion (1893); Contributions to the Science of Mythology (1897). Since his mythological theories are closely related to his philosophy of language, these works should be consulted in connection with the ones consecrated to language or logic, especially Lectures on the Science of Language, and The Science of Thought.
[143] Natural Religion, p. 114.
[144] Physical Religion, pp. 119-120.
[145] Ibid., p. 121; cf. p. 304.
[146] Natural Religion, pp. 121 ff., and 149-155.
[147] "The overwhelming pressure of the infinite" (ibid., p. 138).
[148] Ibid., pp. 195-196.
[149] Max Müller even goes so far as to say that until thought has passed this first stage, it has very few of the characteristics which we now attribute to religion (Physic. Rel., p. 120).
[150] Physic. Rel., p. 128.