It is quite possible to worship an image sincerely and to seek vengeance upon it in a moment of anger.

The one feeling does not exclude the other.

What in the higher classes may be a religion, in the lower classes may be only a superstition, and strange contradictions exist, side by side, in all forms of superstition.

Certainly the Western working man or peasant does not think about his wife or his neighbour's wife in the reverential way that the man of the superior class does.

But you will find, if you talk to them, that something of the reverential idea is there; it is there at least during their best moments.
Now there is a certain exaggeration in what I have said.