CHAPTER I.

SPEECH AND SPECULATION. PAGE.

Difference between Man and Brutes -- Mind-Language and Soul-Language -- Origin of Language: A Gift of the Creator, a Human Invention, or an Evolution -- Nature and Value of Myth -- Origin of Myth: The Divine Idea, a Fiction of Sorcery, the Creation of a Designing Priesthood -- Origin of Worship, of Prayer, of Sacrifice -- Fetichism and the Origin of Animal-Worship -- Religion and Mythology 1