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rectly traceable to the conditions of the region in whicli 
they live. To an agricultural people whose greatest ne- 
cessity in summer is water f(n* the success of the crops, it 
is perfectly natural that the similar systems of religious 
observances should arise. The human mind in early stages 
of its development in primitive society is the same, and 
would necessarily be affected in the same manner and would 
resort to similar observances. The powerful influence of 
observances practised in that stage in man's development, 
when he passed from the hunter to the agririculturist, 
would tinge all his subsequent religious growth. 
If we analyze the climatic conditions which have ex- 
erted an important effect upon early beliefs an arid climate 
or one which sparingly supplies water may not be the least. 
The study of the religious observances in summer among 
a people who have not progressed out of the younger 
stages of growth, but who still live in such an arid region 
under conditions not unlike those in which sedentary hal)- 
its first arose is therefore of more than a passing inteiest. 
MoQDi Shkine, Karge, "the end of the trail." 
