[Gutenberg 46884] • The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions by Read, Carveth -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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THE ORIGIN OF MAN AND OF HIS SUPERSTITIONS PREFACE CONTENTS CHAPTER I ON THE DIFFERENTIATION OF MAN FROM THE ANTHROPOIDS

§ 1. The Hypothesis § 2. What the Hypothesis Explains § 3. Minor and Secondary Consequences § 4. Prey and Competitors § 5. Conclusion

CHAPTER II ON THE DIFFERENTIATION OF THE HUMAN FROM THE ANTHROPOID MIND

§ 1. Heredity, Adaptation, Accommodation § 2. The Original Stock and the Conditions of Differentiation § 3. Primal Society § 4. Psychology of the Hunting-pack § 5. The Wolf-type of Man established by Natural Selection § 6. Some further Consequences of the Hunting-life § 7. Moralisation of the Hunters § 8. Influence of the Imaginary Environment

CHAPTER III BELIEF AND SUPERSTITION

§ 1. Superstition § 2. Imagination § 3. Belief § 4. Causes and Grounds of Belief § 5. The Beliefs of Immature Minds § 6. The Reasoning of Immature Minds § 7. General Ideas at the Savage Level § 8. The Weakness of Imagination-beliefs

CHAPTER IV MAGIC

§ 1. Antiquity of Magic § 2. What is Magic? § 3. The Beginnings of Magic § 4. Magical Force and Primitive Ideas of Causation § 5. Magic and Mystery § 6. Volitional Magic § 7. The Evolution of Magic—Direct Magic § 8. Indirect or “Sympathetic” Magic § 9. The Dissolution of Magic

CHAPTER V ANIMISM

§ 1. What is Animism? § 2. Psychological Animism § 3. The Ghost Theory § 4. Extension of the Ghost Theory to Animals § 5. Ghosts and Soul-stuff § 6. Ghosts and Spirits § 7. How Ghosts and Spirits are imagined § 8. Origin and Destiny of Souls § 9. The Treatment of Ghosts § 10. Evolution and Dissolution of Animism

CHAPTER VI THE RELATIONS BETWEEN MAGIC AND ANIMISM

§ 1. The Question of Priority § 2. Magic and Religion § 3. Ideas and Practices of Magic adopted by Animism § 4. Retrogradation § 5. Spirits know Magic, teach it, and inspire Magicians § 6. Spirits operate by Magic § 7. Spirits are controlled by Magic

CHAPTER VII OMENS

§ 1. The Prevalence of Omens § 2. Omens and Natural Signs § 3. Some Signs Conceived of as Magical § 4. Differentiation of Omens from General Magic § 5. Omens Interpreted by Animism § 6. Natural and Artificial Omens § 7. Divination and Oracles § 8. Apparent Failure of Omens § 9. Apology for Omens

CHAPTER VIII THE MIND OF THE WIZARD

§ 1. The Rise and Fall of Wizardry § 2. The Wizard’s Pretensions § 3. Characteristics of the Wizard § 4. The Wizard and the Sceptic § 5. The Wizard’s Persuasion

CHAPTER IX TOTEMISM

§ 1. Meaning and Scope of Totemism § 2. Of the Origin of Totemism § 3. The Conceptional Hypothesis § 4. Andrew Lang’s Hypothesis § 5. Totemism and Marriage § 6. The Clansman and his Totem § 7. Totemism and Magic § 8. Totemism and Animism

CHAPTER X MAGIC AND SCIENCE

§ 1. Their Common Ground § 2. The Differentiation § 3. Why Magic seems to be the Source of Science § 4. Animism and Science

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