{"collection":"ETC Sacred Texts","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_etc_bb_bb02_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_etc_bb_bb02_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_etc_bb_bb02_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/etc/bb/bb02.htm","summary":"IN the earliest days of his upward evolution man was satisfied with a very crude explanation of natural phenomena--that to which the name \"animism\" has been given. In this stage of mental development all the various forces of Nature are personified: the rushing torrent, the devastating fire, the wind rustling the forest leaves--in the mind of the animistic savage all these are personalities, spirits, like himself, but animated by motives more or less antagonistic to him. I suppose that no\u2026","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Bygone Beliefs","tradition":"ETC Sacred Texts","translated_text":null,"word_count":1774}