Savage religion mysterious--Why this is so--Australians in 1688--Sir John Lubbock--Roskoff--Evidence of religion--Mr. Manning--Mr. Howitt--Supreme beings--Mr. Tylor's theory of borrowing--Reply--Morality sanctioned--Its nature--Satirical rite--"Our Father"--Mr. Ridley on a creator--Mr. Langloh Parker--Dr. Roth--Conclusion--Australians' religious. The Science of Anthropology can speak, with some confidence, on many questions of Mythology. Materials are abundant and practically undisputed, because, as to their myths, savage races have spoken out with freedom. Myth represents, now the early scientific, now the early imaginative and humorous faculty, playing freely round all objects of thought:…
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