In crossing a heath, suppose...I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place....[T]he inference, we think, is inevitable, that the watch must have had a maker: that there must have existed...an artificer or artificers, who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer; who comprehended its construction and designed its ...

I Take it that the function of ceremony reaches in two directions, the affirmation of basic social arrangements and the presentation of ultimate doctrines about man and the world. Typically these celebrations are performed either by persons acting to one another or acting in concert before a congregation. So "social situations" are involved—defining these simply as physical arenas anywhere with...