Excerpt from The Threshold of Religion At the International Congress for the History of Religions held recently in Oxford, several friends who listened to the paper on "The Conception of Mana," which appears fourth in the present collection, were kind enough to suggest that it ought to be published under one cover with various scattered essays wherein aspects of the same subject had previously been examined. The essays in question were: "Pre-Animistic Religion," Folk-Lore, June 1900, pp. 162-182; "From Spell to Prayer," Folk-Lore, June 1904, pp. 132-165; "Is Taboo a Negative Magic?" Anthropological Essays, presented to Edward Burnett Tylor in honour of his 75th birthday, October 2, 1907, pp. 219-234; and A Sociological View of Comparative Religion, Sociological Review, January 1908, pp. 48-60. By the kind leave of the Editor of Folk-Lore, the Delegates of the Clarendon Press, and the Editor of the Sociological Review, it has been possible to proceed to the realization of this idea, conceived as I have shown amid the fervent courtesies of a festive occasion. 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.