"Fetishism" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... such speculations had the same influence on the cultured laity as the teaching of the Rishis had in ancient India. But the truth seems to be that the oldest popular theology of Egypt was only a variety of Negro animism and fetishism.[9] Yet these grovelling superstitions, as is often the case, evolved in unbroken continuity a higher faith. For, in the attempt made to adapt this savage cult to the religious needs of various districts, all alike ...
— Pantheism, Its Story and Significance - Religions Ancient And Modern • J. Allanson Picton |
