Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914, Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London, Chapman and Hall, Limited; New York, A. C. Armstrong and Son · leaf 83
a body that can be seen and touched.Life has been mobilized, if we may use such a phrase, andthus we arrive at polydemonism; by which we mean the theorythat partitions the government of the world among a crowd ofeenii, who, thoutrh often at war amonof themselves, are alvvavsmore powerful than man,… … Fig. 7.—Demons. Louvre. invested with life and power by men who felt themselves in suchcomplete dependence upon them. So far as we can judge, the primitive form of fetishism leftbut feeble traces in the religion of civilized Chalda^a and Assyria.The signs are few of that worship of sacred stones…
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