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Common terms and phrasesaccording Africa alliance ancestors ancient animal appear Bantu languages Bantus beliefs black country Blacks blood body Bwiti called Catholic ceremonies Chaldea chief Christian civilization consecrated dead death divinity earth elements especially everything everywhere evil evolution existence exogamy explain fact father fetich forest Gabon genii Giryama give Gustave Le Bon history of religions human soul idea initiation invisible world J. G. Frazer Kikuyu language less ligion living Loango magic manes Massai matter means morality Mulungu mysterious mythology myths natives nature Negrillos Negritos numerous object offer organization origin person philosophy populations practices prayers precise present prohibitions Pygmies Quatrefages question race reason Reinach relations religious Reville sacred sacrifice savage scholars secret societies social sorcerers sort speak spirits supernatural Swahili taboo theory things Tiele tion to-day totem tree tribes Tylor village Waka word worship Popular passagesPage 292 - Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet'; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, 'Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.' '"Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. Page 292 - Owe no man anything, but to love one another : for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet ; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Page 313 - God, Who, at sundry times and in divers manners, spoke in times past to the fathers by the prophets, last of all, in these days, hath spoken to us by His Son, Whom He hath appointed heir of all things, by Whom also He made the world. Page 73 - A totem is a class of material objects which a savage regards with superstitious respect, believing that there exists between him and every member of the class an intimate and altogether special relation... Page 42 - These three distinct stages of progress from the inorganic world of matter and motion up to man, point clearly to an unseen universe — to a world of spirit, to which the world of matter is altogether subordinate. Page 320 - What is now called the Christian religion has existed among the ancients, and was not absent from the beginning of the human race, until Christ came in the flesh ; from which time the true religion, which existed already, began to be called Christian. Page 290 - fortuitous concourse of atoms" is certainly not wholly inappropriate for the growth of a crystal. But modern scientific men are in agreement with him in condemning it as utterly absurd, in respect to the coming into existence, or the growth, or the continuation of the molecular combinations presented in the bodies of living things. Here scientific thought is compelled to accept the idea of a Creative Power. Page 217 - Belief in a certain series of myths was neither obligatory as a part of true religion, nor was it supposed that, by believing, a man acquired religious merit and conciliated the favour of the gods. What was obligatory or meritorious was the exact performance of certain sacred acts prescribed by religious tradition. Page 290 - No, no more than I could believe that a book of botany describing them could grow by mere chemical forces. Page 54 - If any relics of such imagination survive in civilised mythology, they will very closely resemble the productions of a once universal " temporary insanity ". Let it be granted, then, that " to the lower tribes of man, sun and stars, trees and rivers, winds and clouds, become personal, animate creatures, leading lives conformed to human or animal analogies, and performing their special functions in the universe with the aid of limbs like beasts, or of artificial instruments like men... References to this bookFrom Google ScholarDual organisation in AfricaMDW Jeffreys - 1946 - African Studies References from web pagesLe Roy Alexander: The Religion Of The Primitives | ISBN ... |