Evolutionary Religion—Worship (Part 1)

Primitive religion had a biologic origin, a natural evolutionary development.  It was wholly intellectual—aside from moral associations and apart from all spiritual influences—and was entirely predicated on associational circumstances.  When religion once evolved beyond nature worship, it acquired roots of spirit origin but was nevertheless always conditioned by the social environment.

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