CHAPTER III.

Morphology of the Compared Religions.

Distinction between nature religions and ethical religions unsound--The degree of personality in the cult-objects a better criterion--The earliest system known in Mesopotamia a polytheism with personal deities, but containing certain products of animism and polydaimonism--Other Semitic and non-Semitic peoples of Asia Minor, the Minoan-Mycenaean races, the earliest Greek tribes, already on the plane of personal theism in the second millennium B.C.