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The spirit being thus materialized appears to enjoy an independent existence of its own. Here we touch the central contradiction of Animism. What at first appears as merely the animating principle of a material body turns out to be itself quasi-substantial and capable of existence apart from that body. We must not press Animism for a logical solution of the question how this can be, for Animism remains Animism precisely because the difficulty has not been faced. The soul of Animism is clearly a Conception formed to unify and in a manner Gxplain the visible functions and processes of the body. It underlies the sensible and material, and sets out to explain them. But it turns out to be itself just such another visible and material thing - only thinner and less palpable - a mere double of the appearances which it should explain. For the primitive mind cannot grasp an object of thought with out transforming it into an object of sense. It needs a principle, connecting things that it can see or hear, and by a confusion of categories it makes of it merely another thing that it can see and hear.
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Excerpt from Morals in Evolution, Vol. 2: A Study in Comparative Ethics
The spirit being thus materialized appears to enjoy an independent existence of its own. Here we touch the central contradiction of Animism. What at first appears as merely the animating principle of a material body turns out to be itself quasi-substantial and capable of existence apart from that body. We must not press Animism for a logical solution of the question how this can be, for Animism remains Animism precisely because the difficulty has not been faced. The soul of Animism is clearly a Conception formed to unify and in a manner Gxplain the visible functions and processes of the body. It underlies the sensible and material, and sets out to explain them. But it turns out to be itself just such another visible and material thing - only thinner and less palpable - a mere double of the appearances which it should explain. For the primitive mind cannot grasp an object of thought with out transforming it into an object of sense. It needs a principle, connecting things that it can see or hear, and by a confusion of categories it makes of it merely another thing that it can see and hear.
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MORALS IN EVOLUTION PART II THE BASIS CHAPTER I tiie early phasks of TIIOUGITr 1. The history of law and custom gives us one aspect of ethical evolution. It sots forth the standard of conduct, or rather the standards recognized by different societies at different times. But behind the question of the moral standard is that of the moral basis, the grounds on which morality rests, the spirit in which it is conceived. For besides the question what kind of action is expected from us by our neighbours, our rulers, our spiritual pastors and masters, moral philosophy lias to recognize the further question how it is that these expectations arise. On wbat grounds do rules of action rest, what authority promulgates them and by what sanction are they enforced ? If it happens to be the interest of any individual to disobey them, what reason, other thau physical compulsion, can be assigned for adhering to them ? What is the penalty of disobedience? What, if wrong is done, are the means of recon
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ANALYSIS OF CONTENTS; PAKT II THE BASIS; CHAPTER I; FACE; The Early Phases of Thoccht1; (1) The subject of thig purt is the history of ideas concerning the grounds of morality, and of the religious, scientiiic and other conceptions interwoven therewith (2) The general characteristics of Animism (3) The forms of Magic (4) The t*elation between magic ana animism (5) Both Arise from certain confusions incidental to primitive thought,; (6) On the whole animism and magic appear to be the dominant beliefs among the lower races (7) Spirits and Gods (8) Religions of the early civilizations-Egypt; (9) Babylon ; (10) Greece; CHAPTER II; Etbical Coxcepiionb in Early TnOUQHT50; (1) Breaches of custom may have magical penalties, (2) which ure an externalization of ordinary feeling about such conduct (3) Or they may incur the res
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