[2] The Evolution of Religion, p. 9 (1905); cp. the same author’s Greece and Babylon, p. 37 (1911).
[3] See Marett, The Threshold of Religion, pp. 128 ff. (1909).
[4] Mrs Lilly Grove (now Lady Frazer) and other writers, Dancing, p. 8 (1895); elsewhere in the same volume the writers say: “There must have been a period of the world’s history when every action in life, every game, every banquet, every dance, was a game, a repast, a dance, in honour of the gods,” p. 15. The evidence entirely bears this out if we take “gods” as meaning supernatural powers in general.
[5] La danse ancienne et moderne, ou Traité Historique de la Danse, p. 19 (1754). For a different opinion see Irving King, The Development of Religion, p. 58 (1910).
[6] Der Tanz und seine Geschichte, pp. 3-15 (1869).
[7] He says: “Les différentes affections de l’âme sont donc l’origine des gestes, et la danse qui en est composée, est par conséquent l’art de les faire avec grâce et mesure relativement aux affections qu’ils doivent exprimer,” op. cit. p. 17.
[8] ERE, X. 358 a.
[9] Traité de la Danse, p. 8 (1891). Jevons (in a private communication) lays much stress on the sacred dance being, like every rite, “an expression of will.”
[10] See Dalman, Palestinischer Diwan, p. 254 (1901); cp. Harrison, op. cit. p. 31.
[11] Crawley, ERE, X. 358 a.