Note 67 — LECTURE II. The Origin and Contents of Primitive Religions.
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Clark, Indian Sign Language, pp. 121, 165, 199, 207, etc.; Howitt in Jour. Anthrop. Institute, vol. xiii., p. 186. If one wakes a sleeper suddenly, he may die, as his vagrant soul may not get back in time. Von den Steinen, Naturvölker Zentral-Brasiliens, p. 510. In all these primitive views the real soul is regarded as merely a tenant of the body (not a function or the result of functions), as it is to-day in the popular religions of civilised lands.