“Superstition” is just as much an abstraction over a general pattern of things happening as “government” is. You say “show me a government and I’ll listen”; I

“Superstition” is just as much an abstraction over a general pattern of things happening as “government” is. You say “show me a government and I’ll listen”; I say “Show me a superstition (and an explanation for in what sense you have shown me one), and I’ll show you a country (in the same sense).”