Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from God, Man and Religion: Being of a Short Apologetic Series
According to this theory, Simple archaic peoples, with their reasoning powers hardly awakened, were filled with wonder at nature's activities, especially its more terrible ones, and felt curiosity as to their hidden cause. Finding that the activities of their own bodies proceeded in a mysterious way from their own mind and will, they projected this experience on to the inanimate world, and imagined that its various move ments were caused by invisible beings of mind and will like themselves, but greater in power. In some cases they attributed all the workings of nature to one such unseen being; in other cases to many. Then, re cognising that these forces worked sometimes to their advantage, sometimes to their harm, they conceived feelings of reverence and fear, and imagined that by showing a propitiatory attitude they could in?uence the underlying powers in their favour. This gave rise not only to interior prayer, but also to outward ritual and thus the imagined Spirits came to be wor shipped as gods.
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