For there are strong grounds for thinking that, in the evolution of thought, magic has preceded religion.
The custom of burning a beneficent god is too foreign to later modes of thought to escape misinterpretation. - James G. Frazer
The custom of burning a beneficent god is too foreign to later modes of thought to escape misinterpretation.
- James G. Frazer
In point of fact magicians appear to have often developed into chiefs and kings. - James G. Frazer
In point of fact magicians appear to have often developed into chiefs and kings.
The advance of knowledge is an infinite progression towards a goal that ever recedes. - James G. Frazer
The advance of knowledge is an infinite progression towards a goal that ever recedes.
For when a nation becomes civilized, if it does not drop human sacrifices altogether, it at least selects as victims only such wretches as would be p… - James G. Frazer
For when a nation becomes civilized, if it does not drop human sacrifices altogether, it at least selects as victims only such wretches as would be p…
By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of natur… - James G. Frazer
By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of natur…
Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves. - James G. Frazer
Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves.
With the advance of knowledge, therefore, prayer and sacrifice assume the leading place in religious ritual; and magic; which once ranked with them a… - James G. Frazer
With the advance of knowledge, therefore, prayer and sacrifice assume the leading place in religious ritual; and magic; which once ranked with them a…
The question whether our conscious personality survives after death has been answered by almost all races of men in the affirmative. - James G. Frazer
The question whether our conscious personality survives after death has been answered by almost all races of men in the affirmative.
Man has created gods in his own likeness and being himself mortal he has naturally supposed his creatures to be in the same sad predicament. - James G. Frazer
Man has created gods in his own likeness and being himself mortal he has naturally supposed his creatures to be in the same sad predicament.
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