These beliefs survive in religious ceremonial long after the hard logic of facts has dispelled them from ordinary life.

[133] Thus when an image of a god was made it was at once the god and contained part of his life.

Primitive man had no idea of an imitation or an image nor of a lifeless object, and therefore could not conceive of the representation being anything else than the god.

Only in later times was some ceremony of conveying life to the image considered requisite.

The prohibition of sculpture among the Jews and of painting among the Muhammadans was based on this view, [134] because sculptures and paintings were not considered as images or representations, but as living beings or gods, and consequently false gods.