[151] The Science of Thought, p. 30.
[152] Natural Religion, pp. 393 ff.
[153] Physic. Rel., p. 133; The Science of Thought, p. 219; Lectures on the Science of Language, II, pp. 1 ff.
[154] The Science of Thought, p. 272.
[155] The Science of Thought, I, p. 327; Physic. Rel., pp. 125 ff.
[156] Mélanges de mythologie et de linguistique, p. 8.
[157] Anthropological Religion, pp. 128-130.
[158] This explanation is not as good as that of Tylor. According to Max Müller, men could not admit that life stopped with death; therefore they concluded that there were two beings within them, one of which survived the body. But it is hard to see what made them think that life continued after the body was decomposed.
[159] For the details, see Anthrop. Rel., pp. 351 ff.
[160] Anthrop. Rel., p. 130.—This is what keeps Max Müller from considering Christianity the climax of all this development. The religion of ancestors, he says, supposes that there is something divine in man. Now is that idea not the one at the basis of the teaching of Christ? (ibid., pp. 378 ff.). It is useless to insist upon the strangeness of the conception which makes Christianity the latest of the cults of the dead.