The "animist" ill-acquainted with the savage's language and modes of thought; excluded from those inner "mysteries" which figure in nearly every savage religion; confounding the symbolism, the popular mythology, and also the corruptions, distortions, and abuses which are the parasites of all religion, with the religion itself, can easily come away with the impression that there is nothing but ghost-worship, priestcraft, and superstition, no conception whatever of a personal "Power that makes for Righteousness."
"The Faith of the Millions (2nd series)"
George Tyrrell
The animist and pantheist represent different stages but not different methods of thought.
"Hinduism and Buddhism, Vol I. (of 3) An Historical Sketch"
Charles Eliot