Note 158 — Chapter III · LEADING CONCEPTIONS OF THE ELEMENTARY RELIGION—continued II.—Naturism
Joseph Ward Swain translation
This explanation is not as good as that of Tylor. According to Max Müller, men could not admit that life stopped with death; therefore they concluded that there were two beings within them, one of which survived the body. But it is hard to see what made them think that life continued after the body was decomposed.