CHAPTER IV

THE POSITIVE CULT--(_continued_)

III.--_Representative or Commemorative Rites_

I.--Representative rites with physical efficacy--Their relations with the ceremonies already described--Their action is wholly moral 371

II.--Representative rites without physical efficacy--They confirm the preceding results--The element of recreation in religion: its importance; its reason for existence--The idea of a feast 376

III.--Ambiguity of function in the various ceremonies studied; they substitute themselves for each other--How this ambiguity confirms the theory proposed 383