Note 93 — LECTURE III. Primitive Religious Expression: in the Word.
Reading edition
E. F. Dalton, Ethnology of Bengal, p. 60. “Nothing more colors Hindu life,” writes Mr. Walhouse, “than the belief in the efficacy of mantras—forms of prayer or powerful words, by which all the relations of life may be influenced, and even the gods may be bound.”—Jour. Anthrop, Inst., vol. xiv., p. 189.