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The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

Note 95 — Chapter II · LEADING CONCEPTIONS OF THE ELEMENTARY RELIGION I.—Animism

Joseph Ward Swain translation

This is the case with Jevons, who criticizes the animism taught by Tylor, but accepts his theories on the origin of the idea of the soul and the anthropomorphic instinct of man. Inversely, Usener, in his Götternamen, rejects certain hypotheses of Max Müller which will be described below, but admits the principal postulates of naturism.

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