An extreme resort to this animisticground occurs in his plea for freedom of investment.
Occidental culture has long been largely an industrial culture; and, as already pointed out, the discipline of industry, and of life in an industrial community, does not favor the animistic preconception.
The weight of its discipline, therefore, falls wholly on the animistic side.
The animistic preconception was not lost, but it lost tone; and it partly fell into abeyance, particularly so far as regards its avowal.
The advance in the general point of view from animistic teleology to taxonomy is shown in a curiously succinct manner in a parenthetical clause of Cairnes's in the chapter on Normal Value.
Their theories are not all of the nature of dramatic legend, myth, or animistic life-history, although the broader and more picturesque generalisations may take that form.
It is not unusual to say that the primitive systems of knowledge are constructed on animistic lines; that animistic sequence is the rule to which the facts are broken in.
There seems to be reason for holding that the animistic preconception weakened or, at any rate, fell more into the background as his later work of speculation and investigation proceeded.
But the discipline which makes for an animistic formulation of knowledge continued to hold the primacy in modern culture, although its dominion was never altogether undivided or unmitigated.
Now the essence of modern, as contrasted with ancient, physiological science appears to me to lie in its antagonism to animistic hypotheses and animistic phraseology.
But the last form of the battle between the animistic and the physical views of life is seen in the contention whether the physical analysis of vital phenomena can be carried beyond this point or not.
The anima libera, the free mind of the sixteenth century, of Galileo and his successors, was the counterpart of the disintegration of cosmology and its animistic teleology.
The notion that laws govern and forces rule is an animistic survival.
We see at the start the simple religion of an agricultural people still strongly tinged with animism and inheriting from an animistic past a certain formalism which is so great that it almost becomes a content.
Its whole significance lies in the persistence of animistic modes of thinking under civilised conditions.
The perception of design in nature was, as a matter of fact, no more than a special illustration of the animistic frame of mind which reads vitality into all natural happenings.
Survival In their day of Fetishistic andAnimistic Ideas.
First, they were much less removed than we are from the influence of fetishistic and animistic traditions.
Their religion is distinctly of the Animistic type with a tendency towards Hinduism, Bathau being replaced by Siva in some cases.
The Deoris and Barahis, however, still follow largely certain animistic rites; so far as they have adopted Hinduism at all, it would seem to be of a depraved type, Tantric rather than Vedic.
All mythologies have animistic bases; they were, to begin with, systematized folk beliefs which were carried hither and thither in various stages of development by migrating and trading peoples.
Just as the Atharva-veda came into existence as a book after the Rigveda had been compiled, so did many traditional beliefs of animistic character receive recognition by Brahmanic “schools” after the period of the early Upanishads.
The Zulus are the great standing type of an animistic or ghost-worshipping race without a God.
Animistic conceptions thus reach their utmost limit in the notion of the Anima Mundi.
In this case the Animistic theory seems to me to break down completely.
We therefore examine certain forms of the animistic hypothesis as applied to account for the religion of Israel.
This is precisely what we should expect to find, if Ahone, the Creator, were earlier in evolution, while Okeus and the rest were of the usual greedy class of animistic corruptible deities, useful to priests.
These rites and the animistic conception behind them were next, in rare cases, reflected or refracted back on the Supreme Eternal.
A god made on the animisticmodel can be assigned to any department of human activity, down to sports, or lusts, or the province of Cloacina.
The latter shocking usage, a common rite of animistic religion, was in part voluntary, in part compulsory.
The Cultivation of Rice The most important contribution of the Malays to the animistic theory of vegetation is perhaps to be found in the many strange ceremonies with which they surround the culture of Rice.
The Malacca Cane No less distinct are the animistic ideas of the Malays relating to various species of the Malacca-cane plant.
No other metals, so far as I am aware, are worked to any extent in the Peninsula, yet there is the clearest possible evidence of animistic ideas about Iron.
The method of catching wild pigeon is much more elaborate, and brings the animisticideas of the Malays into strong relief, the "souls" of the wild pigeon being repeatedly referred to.
The idea of long hair is found even inanimistic conceptions of natural objects.
Rather, perhaps, we should consider them as part of a singularly complete and consistent animistic system formerly invented and still held by the Malays.
The foregoing descriptions of mining ceremonies and charms refer to tin only, but in so far as general animistic ideas go, they might be equally well applied to other metals, such as silver and gold.
There are still some traces of the influence of animistic ideas in that part of Malay folklore which is concerned with fire.
As has been already indicated, [487] their animistic notions include a belief in Water Spirits, both of the sea and of rivers, and occasionally this belief finds expression in ritual observances.
This cave, with its lake, has probably a very ancient history, for it seems to be associated in some way with animistic worship, of which there are many traces on Omei.
Well, it is still in these richer animistic and dramatic aspects that religion delights to dwell.
Men would have begun with animistic explanations of natural fact, and criticised these away into scientific ones, as they actually have done.
That breach of old rule, we shall try to show, arises from the peculiar animistic philosophy of the Arunta, by virtue of which totems are no longer totems of descent, but are otherwise obtained.
On the whole, Totemism is breaking down, and something very like Polytheism, of an animistic type, is beginning to emerge, in Melanesia.
Tribal totemism is the source of the individual totem; the latter, probably as a result of animistic ideas that displace tribal totemism, gives rise, as an occasional offshoot, to the sex totem.
This is shown particularly by reference to the totem animals that are found most commonly in Australia, and that suggest a relation between totemism and animistic ideas of the soul.
By the side of this animistic conception of the world, we meet from time to time, in different forms, from Democritus to the present day, another view, which likewise claims exclusive competency to comprehend the universe.
These varied conceptions, Mr. Tylor thinks, conform, in spite of their confusion, to the animistic theology in which they all have their essential principles.
The chief object of their search was the Welt-stoff-- the substance of the universe--and they were guided in their search by the dominating concepts which had emerged in the long course of the animistic and mythological stages.
A link is thus supplied which carries back the history to the animistic and mythological periods, in this case, prehistoric.
And the interest is intensified in view of the fact that his insistence on the life-giving properties of air rests on a widely spread group of animistic notions which have exercised an extraordinary influence on the world at large.
The animistic theory is now being propounded thus.
The original animistic conception of the clouds as themselves personal agents has yielded to that of a god who rules the clouds, though the animistic tendency still remains in the expression, "the little cloud-lambs.
They mean that the older ways of interpreting nature, animistic or supernatural, are being supplanted by explanations founded on knowledge of physical facts and "natural" laws.
Hence the products, so varied and immense, of the animistic tendency and the mytho-poeic faculty.
It would seem that Dotty did not definitely personify the element, but was rather in the animistic stage.
The word naturism should be adopted as a name for the pre-animistic and pre-religious stage of culture, a stage corresponding to the one through which a child passes before he inquires into hidden causes and mechanisms.
Since the child passes through a pre-interpretative stage, may we not admit a corresponding period in racial development during which no explanatory soul-theory, no animistic philosophy, is entertained?
