86:0.2 Man's earliest prereligious [[fear]] of the [[forces]] of [[nature]] gradually became [[religious]] as [[nature]] became personalized, spiritized, and eventually deified in [[human]] [[consciousness]]. Religion of a primitive type was therefore a [[natural]] [[biologic]] consequence of the [[psychologic]] [[inertia]] of evolving [[animal]] minds after such minds had once entertained [[concepts]] of the [[supernatural]]. | 86:0.2 Man's earliest prereligious [[fear]] of the [[forces]] of [[nature]] gradually became [[religious]] as [[nature]] became personalized, spiritized, and eventually deified in [[human]] [[consciousness]]. Religion of a primitive type was therefore a [[natural]] [[biologic]] consequence of the [[psychologic]] [[inertia]] of evolving [[animal]] minds after such minds had once entertained [[concepts]] of the [[supernatural]]. |