Excerpt from The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Vol. 22: A Monthly Journal, Under Episcopal Sanction; July to December, 1907 Just where the account should not begin. The heart of the problem is to determine the place animism occupies in the evolution. To start with animism is simply to beg the whole question. Did the belief in animism originate in ghosts or is it a corruption of a primitive monotheism? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.