At the close of his work, apparently forgetting the propositions of his first chapter as to priority of the sense of obstacle in the primitive man's notion of supernatural forces, Dr. Jevons affirms that the "earliest attempt" towards harmonising the facts of the "external and inner consciousness"—by which is meant observation and reflection

Here we have either a contradiction of the thesis before cited, or a resort to the extremely arbitrary assumption tha in taking credit to himself for a successful management of things, and imputing his miscarriages to a superior power, the primitive man is not trying to "harmonise the facts of his experience." Such an argument would be on every ground untenable; but it appears to be all that can stand between Dr. Jevons and self-contradiction. The way to a sound position is by settling impartially the definition of the term "religion" How Dr. Jevons misses this may be gathered from the continuation of the passage under notice:—