They also think that everything they see is alive like themselves, and that animals exercise volition and have a self-conscious intelligence like their own.

But they quickly learn their mistakes and adopt the point of view of their elders because they are taught.

Primitive man had no one to teach him, and as he did not co-ordinate or test his observations, the traces of this first conception of the natural world remain clearly indicated by a vast assortment of primitive customs and beliefs to the present day.

All the most prominent natural objects, the sun and moon, the sky, the sea, high mountains, rivers and springs, the earth, the fire, became objects of veneration and were worshipped as gods, and this could not possibly have happened unless they had been believed to have life.

Stone images and idols are considered as living gods.