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rectly traceable to the conditions of the region in which 

 they live. To an agricultural people whose greatest ne- 

 cessity in summer is water for 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 religions 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 hab- 

 its first arose is therefore of more than a passing interest. 



MOQUI SHRINE, Karge, "THE END OF THE TRAIL." 



