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Background to the Spirit
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 August 2024
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The fundamental reality of all early religions is that of union, union with the family, with the tribe, with the rest of creation, with God. There is a general consensus of opinion on this point among anthropologists and other students of the prehistoric and the primitive. Thus, ‘The savage seldom or never thinks of the individual as having a distinct personality; all tends to be merged in collective or corporate personality, or is dissolved in fortuitous relationships between men, animals, plants and cosmic and other inanimate objects and forces.’
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- Copyright © 1956 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers
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1 From the Stone Age to Christianity. By W. F. Albright. (Baltimore, 1940), pp. 124ff.
2 ‘Myth and Reality’. By H. & M. A. Frankfort, in Before Philosophy, by various authors (Pelican), pp. 12, 14.
3 Cf. Traité d'Histoire des religions. By Mircea Eliade (Paris, 1949). p. 34.
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