ABSTRACT
In comparing lower with higher levels of religion, there has been seen a clear difference in the place held by anger and its kin. Even at low levels the open anger of men toward eminent spirits and gods soon ceases to be acceptable. The hostility of spirits and gods toward one another, so widespread in backward religion, becomes in the advanced more measured, more subject to moral control ; or it wholly disappears. And upon the upper levels a bound is set to anger between men: deadly hostility, early accepted, falls under suspicion, and is justified only by the vital interests of family or civil government or of religion itself; neither private advantages nor the minor advantages of the community bring it praise.
