- My study of the history of religion has revealed that human beings are spiritual animals. Indeed, there is a case of arguing that Homo sapiens is also Homo religious.
- Men and women started to worship gods as soon as they became recognizably human they created religions at the same time as they created works of art.
- This was not simply because they wanted to propitiate powerful forces.
- These early faiths expressed the wonder and mystery that seems always to have been an essential component of the human experience of the beautiful yet terrifying world.
- homo sapiens 智人
- propitiate the god. 撫慰神靈苗沧，請神靈息怒
- faith 信仰
- essential 基本的唉侄，本質(zhì)的
