The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions
The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions, published in 1920 by Carveth Read, a philosopher and psychologist at University College, London, joins two studies. The first proposes that humans descended from an ape-like stock that took to hunting in packs, like wolves, and that this hunting life shaped human bodies, minds, social bonds and morals. The second examines belief and superstition: how imagination produces beliefs, the reasoning of immature minds, the origins and kinds of magic, animism, omens and the relation of magic to religion and science. Read draws on anthropology and evolution to explain how the human mind came to be. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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