...; and every native with whom I have conversed upon the subject has laughed at the possibility of it being supposed that he could worship or offer sacrifice...to some such object as a stone, which, of itself, it would be perfectly obvious to his senses, was a stone only, and nothing more. Now, in the case of...

...; and every native with whom I have conversed upon the subject has laughed at the possibility of it being supposed that he could worship or offer sacrifice to some such object as a stone." It may be thought by some that it is immaterial to distinguish between worship of an idol as a material...

...native with whom I have conversed on the subject,' writes Ellis, 'has laughed at the possibility of it being supposed that he could worship or offer sacrifice to some such object as a stone, which of itself it would be perfectly obvious to his senses was a stone only and nothing more' (15, 192). So the Maori...

...undoubted, is: "Every native with whom I have conversed on the subject has laughed at the possibility of it being supposed that he could worship or offer sacrifice...obvious to his senses was a stone only and nothing more" (The Tshi-s peaking Peoples, p. 192). From these words it follows that the object worshipped as a fetich...

...carelessness of expression; the evidence of Colonel Ellis, an observer whose competence is undoubted, is: "Every native with whom I have conversed on the subject has laughed at the possibility of it being supposed that he could worship or offer sacrifice to some such object as a stone, which of...