Note 158 — LECTURE IV. Primitive Religious Expression: In the Object.
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Prof. Granger remarks that “the influence of the fetish is interpreted as a kind of life of which the fetish is the seat.”—Worship of the Romans, p. 201. Bastian defines it as “an incorporation of a subjective emotional state,” and his disciple Achelis recognises that it is not a stadium of religious development. See his Moderne Völkerkunde, p. 366.