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" Wonder, and the like, wherein feeling would seem for the time being to have outstripped the power of " natural," that is reasonable, explanation, there arises in the region of human thought a powerful impulse to objectify and even personify the mysterious... "
Folklore - Page 164
edited by - 1900
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Magic and Fetishism

Alfred Cort Haddon - 1906 - 120 pages
...The recognition of the supernatural, the fundamental religious feeling of awe, develops in two ways. There arises in the region of human thought a powerful...render it innocuous, or, better still, propitious, L by force of constraint, communion, or conciliation ' (50, 168). So man personifies the power which...
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Magic and Fetishism

Alfred Cort Haddon - 1906 - 128 pages
...recognition of the supernatural, the fundamental religious feeling of awe, develops in two ways. ' There arises in the region of human thought a powerful impulse to objectify, and even personify, 92 the mysterious or ' supernatural ' something felt ; and in the region of will a corresponding impulse...
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The Threshold of Religion

Robert Ranulph Marett - 1909 - 228 pages
...intellectual development, we must, I think, in any case admit the fact that in response to, or at v anyrate in connection with, the emotions of Awe, Wonder, and..." supernatural " something felt, and in the region oi will a corresponding impulse to render it irrnocuous, or better still propitious, by force of constraint,...
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Man, Volume 9

1909 - 242 pages
...the dead ? " he answers, that " in response to ... the emotions of " Awe, Wonder, and the like, . . . there arises in the region of human thought a " powerful...region of will a corresponding impulse to render it " innocnous, or better still propitious, by force of constraint, communion, or conciliation. '• Super...
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The Religious Experience of the Roman People: From the Earliest Times to the ...

William Warde Fowler - 1911 - 612 pages
...to be in right relation to it. Mr. Marett's word " supernaturalism " seems to mean the same thing ; "There arises in the region of human thought a powerful impulse to objectify, and even to personify, the mysterious or supernatural something felt ; and in the region of will a corresponding...
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Anthropomorphism and Science

Olive Annie Wheeler - 1916 - 334 pages
...soul. Marett thinks that it is impossible to deny "that in response to, or at any rate in connexion with, the emotions of awe, wonder, and the like, wherein...region of human thought a powerful impulse to objectify or even personify the mysterious or supernatural something felt." ' And such personification may occur...
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The American Journal of Psychology, Volume 29

Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener, Karl M. Dallenbach, Madison Bentley, Edwin Garrigues Boring, Margaret Floy Washburn - 1918 - 500 pages
...For him mana is the power which is thought to be in objects which excite awe. He writes (54:10) : " In response to, or at any rate in connection with,...the mysterious or 'supernatural ' something felt." This attitude of the mind, dictated by awe of the mysterious, Marett calls Supernaturalism. The objects...
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Faith and Reason in Religion

George Galloway - 1927 - 240 pages
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Religion Coming of Age, Volume 53; Volume 916

Roy Wood Sellars - 1928 - 318 pages
...following from Marett brings out the primitive idea of the supernatural: "We must, I think, in any case admit the fact that in response to, or at any rate...'supernatural' something felt, and in the region of the will a corresponding impulse to render it innocuous, or better still, propitious by the force of...
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The Origin and Growth of Religion: Facts and Theories

Wilhelm Schmidt - 1931 - 336 pages
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