Carveth Read
The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664591623
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I ON THE DIFFERENTIATION OF MAN FROM THE ANTHROPOIDS
§ 2. What the Hypothesis Explains
§ 3. Minor and Secondary Consequences
CHAPTER II ON THE DIFFERENTIATION OF THE HUMAN FROM THE ANTHROPOID MIND
§ 1. Heredity, Adaptation, Accommodation
§ 2. The Original Stock and the Conditions of Differentiation
§ 4. Psychology of the Hunting-pack
§ 5. The Wolf-type of Man established by Natural Selection
§ 6. Some further Consequences of the Hunting-life
§ 7. Moralisation of the Hunters
§ 8. Influence of the Imaginary Environment
CHAPTER III BELIEF AND SUPERSTITION
§ 4. Causes and Grounds of Belief
§ 5. The Beliefs of Immature Minds
§ 6. The Reasoning of Immature Minds
§ 7. General Ideas at the Savage Level
§ 8. The Weakness of Imagination-beliefs
§ 4. Magical Force and Primitive Ideas of Causation
§ 7. The Evolution of Magic—Direct Magic
§ 8. Indirect or “Sympathetic” Magic
§ 4. Extension of the Ghost Theory to Animals
§ 7. How Ghosts and Spirits are imagined
§ 8. Origin and Destiny of Souls
§ 10. Evolution and Dissolution of Animism
CHAPTER VI THE RELATIONS BETWEEN MAGIC AND ANIMISM
§ 3. Ideas and Practices of Magic adopted by Animism