Once society believes in one supreme spirit, being, or deity, then they have reached the last and highest stage of animism. However, even with the progress of civilization and religion with the help of animism, animism is a “mistake”. Tylor believes that animism is a “primitive science” with unreason and has no good for today’s science and reasoning. Tylor says that primitives, we must remember, are still savages with the rationality of children which “much of what they believe to be true, must be set down as false” (Pals
Once society believes in one supreme spirit, being, or deity, then they have reached the last and highest stage of animism. However, even with the progress of civilization and religion with the help of animism, animism is a “mistake”. Tylor believes that animism is a “primitive science” with unreason and has no good for today’s science and reasoning. Tylor says that primitives, we must remember, are still savages with the rationality of children which “much of what they believe to be true, must be set down as false” (Pals