The animist who endows an inanimate object with a soul regards the visible thing itself as its body, p.
The animist who endows an inanimate object with a soul regards the visible thing itself as its body.
The national religion of the Abyssinians is monophysite Christianity, closely allied to the Coptic religion, but impregnated with Mussulman, Judaic, and indigenous animist elements.
But if the objection of Spencer does not have the decisive value which its author gives it, it is equally true that the animist theory can draw no authority from the confusions which children seem to make.
As long as the animist theory passed as a demonstrated truth, this explanation was able to appear to be confirmed by history.
I It is Tylor who formed the animist theory in its essential outlines.
