. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . A FRICA N NIGRITIA NS. —FE TICHISM. 683 the enlightened races put their feet inthe contemptuous strides of progress. It has been difficult for the civilizedpeoples to reach an adequate idea ofDifficulty of mi- what fetichism This fact, ho
. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . A FRICA N NIGRITIA NS. —FE TICHISM. 683 the enlightened races put their feet inthe contemptuous strides of progress. It has been difficult for the civilizedpeoples to reach an adequate idea ofDifficulty of mi- what fetichism This fact, however, is com-concepts. mon to every race of people as it respects its judgment of thereligious beliefs and practices of an-other. In no regard have men a greaterdifficulty than in apprehending the fixedreligious concepts entertained by otherpeoples. It is indeed difficult for themost enlightened of men to put into thelanguage of reason a perspicuous state-ment of their own religious concepts. Without doubt the difficulty increasesas we pass downwards to the supersti-tions of the lower races. What, indeed,does any man believe in his inmostthought and heart as to the Deity thatis over him and in him, and as to therelations of the man-life below to theGod-life above? If such question cannot be easily and rationally and clearlyansw
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