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NATIVE TRIBES OF SOUTH-EAST AUSTRALIA
CH. VIII
round the figure of clay and the invocating of his name by the medicine-men certainly might have led up to it.
If such a change as a recognised religion had ever become possible, I feel that it would have been brought about by those men who are the depositaries of the tribal beliefs, and by whom in the past, as I think, all the advances in the organisation of their society have been effected. If such a momentous change to the practice of religion had ever occurred, those men would have readily passed from being medicine-men to the office of priests.
