flections upon it) but we do not communicate the actual experience,
simply because we cannot. What we communicate may lead him to actual
experience for himself; but it is not itself the experience. The memory
may give rise, in ourselves or in others to whom we communicate, to
expectation and anticipation; and the expectation is the more likely
to be realised, the less the memory has been transmogrified by
reflection. But, both the memory and the anticipation are clearly
different from actual experience. It is only when they are confused
with one aspect of the actual experience--that which we have called the
idea--that the idea is supposed to be detachable from the being of whom
we have actual experience. The idea is part of the experience; the
memory obviously is not.

If then it be said that the being of God is always an inference and is
never anything more, the reply is that the being of anything whatever
that is remembered or expected is, in the moment of memory or of
anticipation, inferential; but, in the moment of actual experience, it
is not inferred--it is experienced. And what is experienced is, and
from the beginning has always been, in religions of the lower as well
as of the higher culture, at once the being and the idea of God.

INDEX

Aaron, 11

Adoration, 108 ff., 126, 144

Aeschylus, 37

Aetiological myths, 50, 53

Africans, 59

Allegory, 47

Animism, 17, 35, 50

Anthropomorphism, 18 ff., 27

Anti-social character of fetishism, 8, 14

Anu, 136

Aristotle, 121

Assyria, 134 ff.

Atonement, 54, 75

Australians, 57, 58, 59, 86-89, 113, 114

Awe, 24

Axe-heads, 11

Aztecs, 77, 78, 88

Babylonian psalms, 145

Basutos, 143

Being, and idea, 161 ff.

Bergson, 123, 125

Black-fellows, 57

Bow, and arrow, 42

Bull-roarer, 42

Burnt-offerings, 72

Calamity, 73, 97, 103

Ceres, 84

Chicomecoatl, 84

Child (the), and the community, 1, 14

Child (the), and self-consciousness, 3

Children, their toys, 41;
and tales, 41;
community of, 42

Chota Nagpur, 63, 64, 65, 83, 85, 88

Christ, 100

Christianity, 19, 26, 57, 148, 151

Commerce, 69

Common consciousness, capable of emotion and purpose, 2, 3, 14;
the source and the criterion of the individual's speech, thought and
action, 2, 3;
its attitude towards magic, 9 ff., 18;
and tales, 31;
and mythology, 37, 38, 48

Communion (Christian), 77

Communion, 110, 111, 147

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