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Animism

1910 New Catholic Dictionary

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(Latin: anima, soul)

The doctrine that an immaterial principle is the basis of life; in ethnology, a ghost-theory of the origin of religion; the theory that all external bodies are animated by a soul like that of man.

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Entry for 'Animism'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ncd/​a/animism.html. 1910.
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