Note 1181 — Chapter III · THE POSITIVE CULT—continued II.—Imitative Rites and the Principle of Causality
Joseph Ward Swain translation
It is applicable in the sense that there is really an association of the statue and the person encharmed. But it is true that this association is the simple product of an association of ideas by similarity. The true determining cause of the phenomenon is the contagiousness peculiar to religious forces, as we have shown.