The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia

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and handle, and about whose wonder-working powers he had no

doubt. Materialism is the basis of primitive religion; the horizon

of primitive man is limited, and he has not yet learnt to separate

thought from the senses through which alone his narrow world

is known to him. The simple faith of a child often wears a very

materialistic form.

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