The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions

Contents91 chapters

1. 01THE ORIGIN OF MAN AND OF HIS SUPERSTITIONS
2. 02PREFACE
3. 03CONTENTS
4. 04CHAPTER I ON THE DIFFERENTIATION OF MAN FROM THE ANTHROPOIDS
5. 05§ 1. The Hypothesis
6. 06§ 2. What the Hypothesis Explains
7. 07§ 3. Minor and Secondary Consequences
8. 08§ 4. Prey and Competitors
9. 09§ 5. Conclusion
10. 10CHAPTER II ON THE DIFFERENTIATION OF THE HUMAN FROM THE ANTHROPOID MIND
11. 11§ 1. Heredity, Adaptation, Accommodation
12. 12§ 2. The Original Stock and the Conditions of Differentiation
13. 13§ 3. Primal Society
14. 14§ 4. Psychology of the Hunting-pack
15. 15§ 5. The Wolf-type of Man established by Natural Selection
16. 16§ 6. Some further Consequences of the Hunting-life
17. 17§ 7. Moralisation of the Hunters
18. 18§ 8. Influence of the Imaginary Environment
19. 19CHAPTER III BELIEF AND SUPERSTITION
20. 20§ 1. Superstition
21. 21§ 2. Imagination
22. 22§ 3. Belief
23. 23§ 4. Causes and Grounds of Belief
24. 24§ 5. The Beliefs of Immature Minds
25. 25§ 6. The Reasoning of Immature Minds
26. 26§ 7. General Ideas at the Savage Level
27. 27§ 8. The Weakness of Imagination-beliefs
28. 28CHAPTER IV MAGIC
29. 29§ 1. Antiquity of Magic
30. 30§ 2. What is Magic?
31. 31§ 3. The Beginnings of Magic
32. 32§ 4. Magical Force and Primitive Ideas of Causation
33. 33§ 5. Magic and Mystery
34. 34§ 6. Volitional Magic
35. 35§ 7. The Evolution of Magic—Direct Magic
36. 36§ 8. Indirect or “Sympathetic” Magic
37. 37§ 9. The Dissolution of Magic
38. 38CHAPTER V ANIMISM
39. 39§ 1. What is Animism?
40. 40§ 2. Psychological Animism
41. 41§ 3. The Ghost Theory
42. 42§ 4. Extension of the Ghost Theory to Animals
43. 43§ 5. Ghosts and Soul-stuff
44. 44§ 6. Ghosts and Spirits
45. 45§ 7. How Ghosts and Spirits are imagined
46. 46§ 8. Origin and Destiny of Souls
47. 47§ 9. The Treatment of Ghosts
48. 48§ 10. Evolution and Dissolution of Animism
49. 49CHAPTER VI THE RELATIONS BETWEEN MAGIC AND ANIMISM
50. 50§ 1. The Question of Priority
51. 51§ 2. Magic and Religion
52. 52§ 3. Ideas and Practices of Magic adopted by Animism
53. 53§ 4. Retrogradation
54. 54§ 5. Spirits know Magic, teach it, and inspire Magicians
55. 55§ 6. Spirits operate by Magic
56. 56§ 7. Spirits are controlled by Magic
57. 57CHAPTER VII OMENS
58. 58§ 1. The Prevalence of Omens
59. 59§ 2. Omens and Natural Signs
60. 60§ 3. Some Signs Conceived of as Magical
61. 61§ 4. Differentiation of Omens from General Magic
62. 62§ 5. Omens Interpreted by Animism
63. 63§ 6. Natural and Artificial Omens
64. 64§ 7. Divination and Oracles
65. 65§ 8. Apparent Failure of Omens
66. 66§ 9. Apology for Omens
67. 67CHAPTER VIII THE MIND OF THE WIZARD
68. 68§ 1. The Rise and Fall of Wizardry
69. 69§ 2. The Wizard’s Pretensions
70. 70§ 3. Characteristics of the Wizard
71. 71§ 4. The Wizard and the Sceptic
72. 72§ 5. The Wizard’s Persuasion
73. 73CHAPTER IX TOTEMISM
74. 74§ 1. Meaning and Scope of Totemism
75. 75§ 2. Of the Origin of Totemism
76. 76§ 3. The Conceptional Hypothesis
77. 77§ 4. Andrew Lang’s Hypothesis
78. 78§ 5. Totemism and Marriage
79. 79§ 6. The Clansman and his Totem
80. 80§ 7. Totemism and Magic
81. 81§ 8. Totemism and Animism
82. 82CHAPTER X MAGIC AND SCIENCE
83. 83§ 1. Their Common Ground
84. 84§ 2. The Differentiation
85. 85§ 3. Why Magic seems to be the Source of Science
86. 86§ 4. Animism and Science
87. 87INDEX
88. 88FOOTNOTES:
89. 89THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE
90. 90"Cover"
91. 91The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions, by Carveth Read, M.A.

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