How To Use Animatism In A Sentence

• On theoretical grounds it is probable that animatism preceded animism; but savage thought is no more consistent than that of civilized man; and it may well be that animistic and panthelistic doctrines are held simultaneously by the same person. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
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• -- Animism may have arisen out of or simultaneously with animatism as a primitive explanation of many different phenomena; if animatism was originally applied to non-human or inanimate objects, animism may from the outset have been in vogue as a theory of the nature of man. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
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• But it is difficult in practice to distinguish the two phases of thought and no clear account of animatism can yet be given, largely on the ground that no people has yet been discovered which has not already developed to a greater or less extent an animistic philosophy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
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