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influence of each religion on morals in every nation demands 
careful and unprejudiced observation. 
Souls .—1. Is something of the nature of a human soul 
believed in ? 2. What is its name ? is it associated with the 
breath, shadow, &c. ? 3. Does it depart when the body dies ? 
4. Does it go away from the body in sleep, trance, &c ? 5. 
Are any ceremonies performed to bring back the soul when 
the patient is sick or dying from its absence ? 6. What is the 
soul considered to be? what is its form, substance, voice, 
power, &c. ? 7. Is there more than one kind of soul; has an 
individual several souls ? 8. Are souls ever driven away by 
beating, &c., shut up, let out at holes, &c. ? 9. Can souls 
appear in more than one shape ? 10. How are all the phe¬ 
nomena of dreams and visions accounted for? 11. Is there 
any belief in wraiths, he., apparitions of men seen at a dis¬ 
tance at the time of their death ? 
12. Are the lower animals considered to have souls ? and 
are these of the same nature as human souls ? 13, Are 
animals treated and talked to as if human ! 14. Does any 
idea prevail of animals having human or even superhuman 
’{ intelligence ? 15. Are animals sacrificed at funerals ? and if 
l| so, is there a notion of their souls being transported, with 
their master’s, to the world after death ? 16. Are plants con- 
| ( sidered to have life and consciousness like animals? 17. Have 
plants souls ? 18. Is there any notion that objects, such as 
! food, clothes, weapons, &c„, have anything of the nature of 
, souls belonging to them, or phantoms separable from them, 
| which continue to exist after the natural object is destroyed ? 
I 19. What are the images of objects supposed to be which are 
5 seen in dreams, such as clothes, weapons, &c. ? 20. Are any 
funeral offerings given, that the souls of the dead may in any 
way become possessed of the objects or their phantoms ? 
' 21. Do the native notions of souls seem genuine, or have 
they adopted civilized ideas ? 
22. What becomes of the soul after death ? 23. Do some 
souls survive after death, but others perish ? 24. Can a 
surviving soul die a second death or be destroyed? 25. What 
reason do the people give for believing that the soul does not 
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