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Page 73
... Fetichist systems it found current amongst conquered peoples , such as in Egypt , India or Gaul . And we know how fiercely Monotheism , both in its Christian and its Mussulman form , swept away the forms of Poly- theism amongst its ...
... Fetichist systems it found current amongst conquered peoples , such as in Egypt , India or Gaul . And we know how fiercely Monotheism , both in its Christian and its Mussulman form , swept away the forms of Poly- theism amongst its ...
Page 76
... Fetichism , which is the activity of material things . The error of the Fetichists was in confusing activity with vi- tality , and even with feeling . But there is both moral and social , and even scientific , value in the Fetichist as ...
... Fetichism , which is the activity of material things . The error of the Fetichists was in confusing activity with vi- tality , and even with feeling . But there is both moral and social , and even scientific , value in the Fetichist as ...
Page 77
... Fetichism , and are directly due to the Fetichist conception of Na- ture and its nearness to Man . And all this was consolid- ated and stimulated when Fetichism evolved a religion of its own in the infinite forms of the primitive ...
... Fetichism , and are directly due to the Fetichist conception of Na- ture and its nearness to Man . And all this was consolid- ated and stimulated when Fetichism evolved a religion of its own in the infinite forms of the primitive ...
Page 78
... Fetichist religion of Nature , in its most ge- neral and best type , has exercised profound influence on all succeeding forms of religion , and continues to modify the entire scheme of civilised habit . Our Calendar , our anniversary ...
... Fetichist religion of Nature , in its most ge- neral and best type , has exercised profound influence on all succeeding forms of religion , and continues to modify the entire scheme of civilised habit . Our Calendar , our anniversary ...
Page 79
... Fetichist supersti- tion , which in its most ghastly form survives in Da- homey and Hayti . Now turn to the nobler and permanent results of Fetichist ideas , and compare these with the Positivist system which incorporates them . Fetichism ...
... Fetichist supersti- tion , which in its most ghastly form survives in Da- homey and Hayti . Now turn to the nobler and permanent results of Fetichist ideas , and compare these with the Positivist system which incorporates them . Fetichism ...
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Page 181 - ... the Dissidence of Dissent and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion. I do not say that other and more intelligent forces than this were not opposed to the Oxford movement : but this was the force which really beat it ; this was the force which Dr. Newman...