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wasting human food. So, again, he related how, when 

 his brother killed a "wild man," storms long raged, 

 much rain and snow fell. Yet we could nerer discover 

 that the Fuegians belieyed in what we should call a God, 

 or practiced any religious rites ; and Jemmy Button, with 

 justifiable pride, stoutly maintained that there was no 

 devil in his land. This latter assertion is the more re- 

 markable, as with savages the belief in bad spirits is far 

 more common than that in good ones. 



The feeling of religious devotion is a highly complex 

 one, consisting of love, complete submission to an exalted 

 and mysterious superior, a strong sense of dependence, 

 fear, reverence, gratitude, hope for the future, and per- 

 haps other elements. No being could expeirience so com- 

 plex an emotion until advanced in his intellectual and 

 moral faculties to at least a moderately high level. Nev- 

 ertheless, we see some distant approach to this state of 

 mind in the deep love of a dog for his master, associ- 

 ated with complete submission, some fear, and perhaps 

 other feelings. The behavior of a dog, when returning 

 to his master after an absence, and, as I may a^d, of a 

 monkey to his beloved keeper, is widely different from 

 that toward their fellows. In the latter case, the trans- 

 ports of joy appear to be somewhat less, and the sense of 

 equality is shown in every action. Professor Braubach 

 goes so far as to maintain that a dog looks on his master 

 as on a god. 



The same high mental faculties which first led man 

 to believe in unseen spiritual agencies, then in fetichism, 

 polytheism, and ultimately in monotheism, would infal- 

 libly lead him, as long as his reasoning powers remained 

 poorly developed, to various strange superstitions and cus- 

 toms. Many of these are terrible to think of — such as the 

 sacrifice of human beings to a blood-loving god ; the trial 



