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who investigate human customs, institutirms, and be— liefs all over the world? Does not the entire subject of the origin and development of religions belong; to Ethnology rather than Philology?

For instance, the Inclo-Europeans mnlie 1mm}: of the worship of tho sun as n supreme being. lint so do the Iroquois Indians, and many other savage or semibnrbnrous peoples. It is inrlcerl true, and it is on important truth, that the human race, endowed :13 it is essentially alike, is liable anywhere and at any time to incorporate in its beliefs this most imposing; and deifiable visible object in all nature, the sun, the source of light and heat, seasons and vegetatiml. This is the simple ethnological fact The fact in IndouEuropean Comparative Mythology is n differ... out one: it is a. historical fact. In the curly period of each Indo-European people heaven, its agents and powers, including of course the son, were, no We know on excellent authority, worshipped or deificdl We are therefore today, as formerly, securely intrcnchccl in the conviction that the worship of heaven and the visible heavenly phenomena, more or less personal“ ised, did in fact form the common kernel of Indo- European religion. Now do Ifail to see what the beliefs of other peoples, not IndoEuropenn, along the same line, have to do with this particular case, except to show that the Inclr3~EL1rc_}1‘)eaIIS were

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