The Importance of Exorcism

The primitive mind, like our own, is anxious to find the reasons for what happens. But it does not seek these in the same direction as we do. A prioristic reasoning is purely conceptual and deductive. It cannot produce anything else but tautologies and analytic judgments. All its implications are logically derived from the premises and were already contained in them. No facts provided by ethnology or history contradict the assertion that the logical structure of mind is uniform with all men of all races, ages and countries. The concept of a rectangular triangle already implies the theorem of pythagoras. Exorcism is a deliberate, purposeful action based on a world view which most of our contemporaries condemn