These are the class of gambling practices of which the church bazaar or raffle may be taken as the type.
As indicating the degree of legitimacy of these practices in connection with devout observances proper, it is to be remarked that these raffles, and the like trivial opportunities for gambling, seem to appeal with more effect to the common run of the members of religious organizations than they do to persons of a less devout habit of mind.
All this seems to argue, on the one hand, that the same temperament inclines people to sports as inclines them to the anthropomorphic cults, and on the other hand that the habituation to sports, perhaps especially to athletic sports, acts to develop the propensities which find satisfaction in devout observances.

Conversely; it also appears that habituation to these observances favors the growth of a proclivity for athletic sports and for all games that give play to the habit of invidious comparison and of the appeal to luck.

Substantially the same range of propensities finds expression in both these directions of the spiritual life.

That barbarian human nature in which the predatory instinct and the animistic standpoint predominate is normally prone to both.

The predatory habit of mind involves an accentuated sense of personal dignity and of the relative standing of individuals.