Author Description

James Weir Junior (1856-1906) was the author of: The Dawn of Reason; or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals (1899) and Religion and Lust; or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire (1905). "I believe that man originated his first ideas of the supernatural from the external phenomena of nature which were perceptible to one or more of his five senses; his first theogony was a natural one and one taken directly from nature. In ideation the primal bases of thought must have been founded, ab initio, upon sensual perceptions; hence, must have been materialistic and natural. Spencer, on the contrary, maintains that in man, "the first traceable conception of a supernatural being is the conception of a ghost. ""