kind of evidence of observers for this ‘alleged’ benevolent Supreme Being as we have for the canaille of ghosts and fetishes.  If he is a deity of a rather lofty moral conception, of course he need not be propitiated by human sacrifices or cold chickens. That kind of material evidence to the faith in him must be absent by the nature of the case; but the coincident testimony of travellers to belief in a Supreme Being cannot be dismissed as ‘alleged.’]

[Footnote 3:  Pp. 676, 677.]

[Footnote 4:  Man, J.A.I. xii. 70.]

[Footnote 5:  Man, J.A.I. xii. 96-98.]

[Footnote 6:  xii. 156, 157.]

[Footnote 7:  xii. 112.]

[Footnote 8:  xii. 158.]

[Footnote 9:  xii. 158.]

[Footnote 10:  Myth, Ritual, and Religion, i. 281-288.]

[Footnote 11:  Lobeck, Aglaophamus, 133.]

[Footnote 12:  J.A.I. x. 263.]

[Footnote 13:  J.A.I. 267.]

[Footnote 14:  J.A.I. x. 267.]

[Footnote 15:  P. 281.  This is a nunuai with which I am familiar.  Flying fish, in Banks Island, take the role of salmon.  The natives think it real, but without form or substance.]

[Footnote 16:  Codrington, Melanesia, p. 122.]

[Footnote 17:  J.A.I. x. 294.]

[Footnote 18:  Op. cit. x. 313.]

[Footnote 19:  J.A.I. x. 300.]

[Footnote 20:  Williams’s Fiji, p. 218.  See Mr. Thomson’s remarks cited later.]

[Footnote 21:  Fiji, p. 217.]

[Footnote 22:  Ibid. p. 228.]

[Footnote 23:  Ibid. p. 230.]

[Footnote 24:  J.A.I. xiv. 30.]

[Footnote 25:  J.A.I. xi. 361-366.]

[Footnote 26:  Ibid. xi. 374.]

[Footnote 27:  Ibid. xi. 376.]

[Footnote 28:  Ibid. xi. 376]

[Footnote 29:  J.A.I. xi. 378.]

[Footnote 30:  Ibid. 382.]

[Footnote 31:  Prim.  Cult. ii. 360.]

[Footnote 32:  Conceivably, however, the Guiana spirits who have so much moral influence, exert it by magical charms.  ’The belief in the power of charms for good or evil produces not only honesty, but a great amount of gentle dealing,’ says Livingstone, of the Africans.  However they work, the spirits work for righteousness.]

[Footnote 33:  Obviously there could be no Family God before there was the institution of the Family.]

[Footnote 34:  Callaway, Rel. of Amazulu, p. 17.]

[Footnote 35:  Callaway, p. 1.]

[Footnote 36:  Op. cit. p. 8.]

[Footnote 37:  Op. cit. p. 7.]

[Footnote 38:  Op. cit. p. 19.]

[Footnote 39:  Callaway, pp. 20, 21.]

[Footnote 40:  Pp. 26, 27.]

[Footnote 41:  Pp. 49, 50.]

[Footnote 42:  P. 67.]

[Footnote 43:  P. 122.]