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5 quotes by James G. Frazer

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Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from... →

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The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical... →

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The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux.

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The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of... →

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By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of... →

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