However, if the point is to understand how religion developed over time and became so internal within individuals, then elementary forms of religious life religious may be helpful in providing insight into this. Obviously, Durkheim's intentions as to why he wrote this are unclear. He may simply be interested in the evolutionary development of religion or there may be a hidden agenda behind his work. As he did not practice religion, this could explain his insistence that "other" things were sacred or deserved recognition as well rather than typical "personal beings" such as gods, saints or spirits. This could involve Durkheim's own idea of ​​how to live spiritually by appreciating certain virtues, developing one's own moral guidelines, and living them. Instead of worshiping a personal being, this could cause future conflict and hatred among people who worship other personal beings. This is why he may have viewed Buddhism as the ideal religion, as it focuses more on scary concepts such as the Four Noble Truths rather than a supreme being which he actually believed to be a relatively new idea in because of the scientific need to separate humans from other beings. . Durkheim was essentially trying to answer a complex philosophical question about the fundamental nature of religion through sociological rather than philosophical means. Again, he attempts to do this by examining the very beginning of primitive religion, its nature and sacred concepts. Lester F Ward, who wrote "The Essential Nature of Religion", although published before Durkheim's Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, once again corroborates Durkheim's words in the sense that, to understand religion and its meaning in this world and for individuals who practice religion life, we must look at the very beginnings of religion and how it came to be