[189]. Max Müller, Origin and Development of Religion (Hibbert Lectures), p. 227.
[190]. For a discussion of this point see Goblet d’Alviella, L’idée de Dieu, pp. 60 et seq.
[191]. Goblet d’Alviella, op. cit., p. 50.
[192]. Principles of Sociology, vol. i. pp. 130-142.
[193]. For the facts see Goblet d’Alviella, op. cit., p. 178.
[194]. Goblet d’Alviella, ib., pp. 176-198.
[195]. For details, consult Tiele, Manuel de l’histoire des Religions, Goblet d’Alviella, pp. 153-163. “The divine feudality is the primordial fact in Egyptian religion, as political feudality is the primordial fact of Egyptian history” (Maspero, Histoire Ancienne).
[196]. The theory of do ut des is expressed with naïve completeness in a Brahmanic hymn. “Well filled, O spoon [of the sacrifice], fly down; well filled, return. As having agreed on a price, let us make exchanges of strength and vigour. Give me, I give to thee; bring to me, I bring to thee.” Better still: "If thou wilt injure any one, say to Surya: ‘Strike such an one, and I will make thee an offering,’ and Surya, to obtain the offering, will strike him." (Barth, Les Religions de l’Inde, pp. 25, 26.)
[197]. This prayer will be found in full in Maspero, op. cit. (4th ed.), p. 38.
[198]. For many original and quoted observations showing the close connection between the sexual and religious emotions, see the recent series of valuable papers by Vallon and Marie, “Des Psychoses Religieuses,” Archives de Neurologie, 1897.—Ed.