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Rh Civilisation; his fundamental theory of the Origin of Gods from Ghosts, of Ghosts from Souls, and of Souls from Savage reflections on Shadows, etc.; and his fundamental self-contradiction in both accepting Comte's Fetishism, and treating it as "a subordinate department of the theory of Spirits"—these all, therefore, remain unchanged in Dr. Tylor's theory of Animism. And it is these positions and their implications that I have ventured to query.