The Psychological Origin And the Nature of Religion

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The Psychological Origin And the Nature of Religion
James Henry Leuba
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Nevertheless, in course of time the animals seem to reach a sort of generalised manner of procedure which enables them to deal more promptly with any new fastening (not too different from others of their experience). ' ' The Raccoon : A Study in Animal Intelligence, ' Amer. Jr. Of Psy. , Oct. 1907, p. 486.
19 PSYCHOLOGICAL ORIGIN OF RELIGION arrived at by animals in the absence of abstract ideas about forces. Yet so it is; before any speculation on power, before any induction or deduction, befo
...re any abstract notion of the nature of spirit and matter, animals have learned to deal quite well with what we call physical and personal forces. How did they do it? The study under experimental conditions of the establishment of new reactions in animals reveals the process very clearly. Imagine a cat shut up in a cage, the door of which can be opened by pressing down a latch. When weary of confine- ment the cat begins to claw, pull, and bite, here, there, and everywhere. After half an hour, or an hour of this purposive, but unreasoned, activity, he chances to put his paw upon the latch and escapes.

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