CHAPTER IV. The Positive Cult--(_continued_)

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