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I was anxious to explain to you in my last lecture how the same source which supplied the ancient world with religious concepts, produced also a number of ideas which cannot claim to be called religious in any sense, least of all in that which we ourselves connect with the name of religion.
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See M. Kovalevsky, Tableau des origines et de l’évolution de la famille, 1890, p. 80. He also quotes Geiger, Ostiranische Kultur.
R. Manzoni, El-Yemen, Tre Anni nell’ Arabia felice, Roma, 1884, p. 82.
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Stone, J.R. (2002). Religion, Myth, and Custom. In: Stone, J.R. (eds) The Essential Max Müller On Language, Mythology, and Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-08450-7_15
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