With him it eventuates in fantastic myth-making, rather than in coercive superstition.

The barbarian culture shows sportsmanship, status, and anthropomorphism.

There is commonly observable a like concomitance of variations in the same respects in the individual temperament of men in the civilized communities of today.

Those modern representatives of the predaceous barbarian temper that make up the sporting element are commonly believers in luck; at least they have a strong sense of an animistic propensity in things, by force of which they are given to gambling.

So also as regards anthropomorphism in this class.