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When we reflect with what difiiculty many persons in civilised countries understand the laws Of causation in respect Of quite simple phenomena, we may readily apprehend how savage minds naturally resorted to supernatural explanations when confronted by the mysteries of life and death. The evil and the suffering of existence were thus ascribed to the influence Of spirits. One primitive brain conceived the idea that a bad spirit urged men to such anti social acts as slaying or robbing within the tribe, while famine and pestilence were attributed to the ill will of a super-human being. It was difficult to explain the good and evil forces in the world. Dread succeeded the animistic belief that man shared life with trees and rocks, and men began to quail at the voice of enraged gods when thunder reverberated among the hills. But the great spirit was not always wrathful. He gave the sunshine and shower and increase of the fruits of the earth; he shed joys and blessings, and men learned to adore as well as to fear.
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