Joseph Alexander Leighton Quote

Death is not regarded as a natural affair by primitive man. Death is believed to be due to the intervention of some malevolent or at least not well disposed power. Normally it should not take place. So we have all through history crude explanations of death, as e.g., the influence of the serpent, the devil, sin.


The field of philosophy: an outline of lectures on introduction to philosophy (ed. 1919)


Death is not regarded as a natural affair by primitive man. Death is believed to be due to the intervention of some malevolent or at least not well...

Death is not regarded as a natural affair by primitive man. Death is believed to be due to the intervention of some malevolent or at least not well...

Death is not regarded as a natural affair by primitive man. Death is believed to be due to the intervention of some malevolent or at least not well...

Death is not regarded as a natural affair by primitive man. Death is believed to be due to the intervention of some malevolent or at least not well...