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The Childhood of the World; A Simple Account of Man in Early Times

The Childhood of the World; A Simple Account of Man in Early Times

Clodd, Edward

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1458866831
ISBN13: 9781458866837
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 74
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.09 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1873. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... but because he knows little, yet feels that he has the power to learn much, he uses the power in gaining increase of wisdom and knowledge, till he feels the truth of those very old words which say of wisdom, She is more precious than rubies, and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her. XXVI. Fetish-Worship. So far then we have seen how man seeks to explain what he sees around him, and the next thing we have to find out is, what is his first feeling towards it all? It is to bow before it and worship the powers which seem stronger than himself. The very lowest form of worship is that paid to lifeless things in which some virtue or charm is thought to dwell, and is called fetish worship, from a word meaning a charm. It does not matter what the object is; it may be a stone of curious shape, the stump of a tree with the roots turned up, even an old hat or a red rag, so long as some good is supposed to be had, or some evil to be thwarted, through it. The worship of stones, about which we may read in the Bible, prevails to this day among rude tribes, who have the strangest notions about them as being sometimes husbands and wives, sometimes the dwellingplace of spirits. The confused ideas which cause the savage to look upon dreams as real cause him to confound the lifeless with the living, and to carefully destroy the parings off his nails and cuttings of his hair, lest evil should be worked through them. The New Zealander would thrust pebbles down the throat of a male child to make its heart hard. The Zulu chews wood that the heart of his foe or of the woman whom he loves may soften towards him even as the wood is being bruised. The dreadful practice of men eating human flesh is supposed to have arisen from the idea that if the flesh of so...

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