Religion and Lust

Stuhlman: Mit Emin Pasha.

Strabo: Works.

Teulon: Orig. de la Famille.

Tylor: Anthropology.

Vignoli: Myth and Science.

Vogt: Lectures on Man.

Wappaus: Allgem. Bevoelkerungsstatistik.

Wallace: Travels on the Amazon.

Westermarck: Human Marriage.

White: History of the Warfare of Science with Theology.

Wallace: The Malay Archipelago.

Weir: Dawn of Reason.

notes

1

Spencer: Principles of Sociology, vol. i, p. 281.

2

“Theology and religion are of service in morals and conduct in direct proportion as they have become adapted to our knowledge of natural phenomena”—Lydston: The Diseases of Society, p. 68.

3

Tito Vignoli: Myth and Science, p. 85.

4

Clarke in his interesting book gives us some very readable stories anent the ability of animals seeing imaginary objects. I myself have seen a parrot with a marked case of delirium tremens, due to excessive use of alcoholic stimulants (Vid. Author: The Dawn of Reason). Romanes also gives valuable data in his Mental Evolution (in Animal, and in Man) concerning this subject. The fox terrier (Vid. Author: Dawn of Reason) which carried his dreams into his awakened state is apropos.

5

Maspero (Sayce): The Dawn of Civilization, p. 103, and Maspero: Etudes de Mythologie et d’Archiologie Egyptiennes, vol. ii, pp. 34, 35.

6

Maspero (Sayce): The Dawn of Civilization, p. 183 et seq.

7

That the patriarchs had their household gods, we have every reason for believing; these household gods were, however, tutelary divinities, such as were kept in the house of every Chaldean, and were not the images of ancestors. Rachel, the wife of Jacob, stole the household gods of Laban, her father, who is called a Syrian. Abraham himself was a Chaldean. Gen. 11:31; also Gen. 31:19-20.

8

Bancroft: The Native Races of the Pacific States of North America, vol. i, p. 400.

9

Balboa: History of Peru.

10

Garcilasso: The Royal Commentaries of the Incas.

11

Browlow: Travels, p. 136.

12

Bancroft: The Native Races of the Pacific States of North America, vol. i, p. 400.

13

Reclus: Primitive Folk, p. 18.

14

Dall: Alaska and its Resources, p. 96.

15

In a letter to me, a naval officer of high rank states that, beyond question of doubt, the Aleutian priests keep male concubines whom they use in their religious observances. He, also, gives other evidences of phallic worship among these people.

16

Negroes of Benin and Sierra Leone (Bosman, loc. cit., p. 526), Mandingoes (Waitz, vol. ii, p. 3), Bechuanas (Holub, loc. cit., p. 398); quoted also by Westermarck, Human Marriage, p. 206.

17

Gregory: The Great Rift Valley, p. 351.

18

Gregory: The Great Rift Valley, p. 351.

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