Abstract
IF religion be understood in the broadest sense as the belief in spiritual being, it may be said that prolonged inquiry has failed to show any authenticated instance of a people, however backward, who do not hold to some form of belief which, though vague and rudimentary, can be deemed religious. It is difficult to draw a hard and fast line between magic and religion; and indeed it is a question whether such a differentiation is essential from the point of view of the inquirer who is attempting to trace the development of the religious idea. For even ‘magic’ implies some form of spiritual influence humanly directed. Belief in the efficacy of magic is as much an act of faith in some form of spiritual action as the Christian belief in Divine intervention in human affairs; and the essence of a religious belief is that it is an act of faith.
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