86:4.4 [[Eventually]] the savage conceived of himself as a double—[[body]] and [[breath]]. The breath minus the body equaled a [[spirit]], a [[ghost]]. While having a very definite [[human]] [[origin]], [[ghosts]], or spirits, were regarded as [[superhuman]]. And this [[belief]] in the [[existence]] of disembodied spirits seemed to explain the occurrence of the unusual, the extraordinary, the infrequent, and the inexplicable. | 86:4.4 [[Eventually]] the savage conceived of himself as a double—[[body]] and [[breath]]. The breath minus the body equaled a [[spirit]], a [[ghost]]. While having a very definite [[human]] [[origin]], [[ghosts]], or spirits, were regarded as [[superhuman]]. And this [[belief]] in the [[existence]] of disembodied spirits seemed to explain the occurrence of the unusual, the extraordinary, the infrequent, and the inexplicable. |