Unquestionably therefore the pre-historic religion was like that of savages--viz., in this that it largely consisted in the watching of omens and in the worship of lucky beasts and things, which are a sort of embodied and permanent omens.
Bagehot suggests that prehistoric religions were similar to those of savages, focusing on omens and lucky symbols.
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