Faith in God is man’s common and constant characteristic

On examining the historical records of all types  of people around the world, it  will be obvious that    faith  in  God  is man’s  common and  constant characteristic. Uncivilized forest  tribals  survive, like animals,  on animal  flesh, but  they  also worship the sun,  the moon,  huge  mountains, large  rivers  and  tall trees  as their   benefactors and  controllers. Why do they do this?  Though the soul is extremely bound up, his faith in the  Lord, his natural quality as spirit  soul,    will  gradually manifest as the  degree that  the  material covering is  weakened.

Chaitanya Shikshamrita, Bhaktivinoda Thakura