It will be seen, as Professor Tylor points out, that the line of religious development is continuous.
That is true; but the question to be asked about these Roman gods is, to what stage of religious development do they belong: do they prove a primitive or an advanced stage of religious thought?
Galloway, The Principles of Religious Development, a psychological and philosophical study, 1909.
Yet beast worship, such as it was and is, has played an important part in religious development.
The general history of civilization leads us to expect a gradual combination and fusion of all lines of religious development, in which every system will contribute its best, and the lower elements will be discarded.
In this way individuality and unitary character may be preserved in every case, while the agreements and disagreements may be made clear by referring them to general principles of religious development.
In all stages of religious development, except the very highest, he has been recognized by public opinion and by law as a part of the religious constitution of society and has often attained great civil and political power.
See to the same effect Mackay's Religious Development, 1850, vol.
See also Mackay's Religious Development of the Greeks and Hebrews, vol.
For evidence of the knowledge of moral truths possessed by barbarous nations, independently of Christianity, and for the most part previous to its promulgation, compare Mackay's Religious Development, vol.
The rise of the god-idea, therefore, ushers in a new epoch of religious development.
In the course of religious development, human sacrifice gave way to animal sacrifice, and cult anthropophagy was displaced by the eating of the flesh of the sacrificial animal.
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