Note 207 — Chapter XXI · CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE POLITICAL STATE

For facts regarding the importance and nature of these conceptions, see Westermarck, op. cit., pp. 52-72; Robertson Smith, The Religion of the Semites, pp. 427-435 and 139-149; Jevons, Introduction to the History of Religion; Hobhouse, op. cit., Vol. II., chs. i. and ii.; and in general facts bearing on the relations between taboos, holiness, and uncleanness; ablutions, purifications by fire, transference by scapegoats; also the evil power of curses, and the early conceptions of doom and fate. For a suggestive interpretation of the underlying facts, see Santayana, The Life of Reason, Vol. III., chs. iii. and iv.