Revival: Primitives and the Supernatural (1936)

<p>Dr. Levy-Bruhl presents a dramatic picture of the primitives who live in a world that is capricious unpredictable and unstable; under the power of spirits both good and evil to be worshipped or propitiated by ceremonies dances and religious rites. Dr. Levy-Bruhl shows how the mind of the primitive has no conception of the world of abstract though natural law causation and categories which has been opened up to the mind by science and philosophy. In addition the author explains omens talismans amulets ancestor worship witchcraft insect defilement and purification as fundamental parts of the primitive existence. </p>