AN ECCLESIASTICAL SYSTEM AS A SOCIAL BOND. 7G5 



disappointed. Even concerning peoples so rude as the 

 Ostyaks, we find the remark that &quot;the use of the same 

 consecrated spot, or the same priest, is also a bond of union ; &quot; 

 and higher races yield still clearer evidence. Let us study it 

 under the heads above indicated. 



623. The original tribes of the Egyptians, inhabiting 

 areas which eventually became the nomes, were severally 

 held together by special worships. The central point in each 

 &quot; was always, in the first place, a temple, about which a city 

 became formed.&quot; And since &quot; some animals, sacred in one 

 province, were held in abhorrence in another&quot; since, as we 

 have seen, the animal-naming of ancestral chiefs, revered 

 within the tribe but hated beyond it, naturally originated 

 this ; we have reason for concluding that each local bond 

 of union was the worship of an original ancestor-god. 



Early Greek civilization shows like influences at work ; 

 and records enable us to trace them to a higher stage. 

 Grote writes 



&quot;The sentiment of fraternity, &quot;between two tribes or villages, first 

 manifested itself by sending a sacred legation or Theoria to offer 

 sacrifice at each other s festivals and to partake in the recreations 

 which followed.&quot; ...&quot; Sometimes this tendency to religious fraternity 

 took a form called an Amphiktyony, different from the common festival. 

 A certain number of towns entered into an exclusive religious partner- 

 all ip, for the celebration of sacrifices periodically to the god of a 

 particular temple, which was supposed to be the common property and 

 under the common protection of all.&quot; 



Then concerning the most important of these unions, we read 

 in Curtius 



&quot; All Greek collective national names attach themselves to particular 

 sanctuaries : these are the centres of union, and the starting-points of 

 history. ... In this respect Apollo, as the god of the Thessalian 

 Amphictyony, may be said to be the founder of the common nationality 

 of the Hellenes, and the originator of Hellenic history.&quot; 



If with this we join the further significant fact that &quot;the 

 Dorians . . . even called Dorus, the ancestor of their race, 

 an so of Apollo, and recognized in the spread of the worship 



