Excerpt from Religion in Evolution

These four lectures were delivered in the Vacation Term for Biblical Study at Cambridge, and are printed at the request of those who heard them.

In Lecture I. I accept the statement of Mr Howitt in his "Native Tribes of Southeast Australia" that the South-eastern tribes who believe in an All-father are socially more advanced than the Northern tribes, who, according to Messrs Spencer and Gillen, have no "belief of any kind in a supreme Being who rewards or punishes the individual according to his moral behaviour." At the time of writing I had not seen Mr A. Lang's letter to Folk-Lore (xvi. 2, pp. 221-224), in which he argues, against Mr Howitt, that the majority of the South-eastern tribes "are in the more primitive form of social organisation."

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