The Religion of the Veda: The Ancient Religion of India (from Rig-Veda to Upanishads) c11.23

c11.23

As regards inanimate things, we need but remember the child's relation to its doll, or, that children punish with their own oft-tasted penalties the stick over which they stumble. In brief, the nearer or remoter analogies of human life which pervade, or seem to pervade all objects in nature present themselves to early man as guarantees or suggestions of universal animation, of souls present in every shapen thing.