They would rather use "daimonism," or "supernaturalism," or other such new term; but none of these seems to me so wide and so exactly significant of what I mean as "religion." All now agree that in this very broad sense some kind of religion exists in every human community.[1] [Footnote 1: I suppose I am not going too far in saying "all agree;" for I think that the latest study of this subject, by Gustav Roskoff, disposes of Sir John Lubbock's doubts, as well as the crude statements of the author of _Kraft und Stoff_, and such like compilations.

Gustav Roskoff, _Das Religionswesen der Rohesten Naturvoelker_, Leipzig, 1880.] The attempt has often been made to classify these various faiths under some few general headings.

The scheme of Auguste Comte still has supporters.

He taught that man begins with fetichism, advances to polytheism, and at last rises to monotheism.

More in vogue at present is the theory that the simplest and lowest form of religion is individual; above it are the national religions; and at the summit the universal or world religions.
Comte's scheme has not borne examination.