From the earliest times man has been engaged in a search for general rules whereby to turn the … - James G. Frazer

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He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure.

James G. Frazer

From the earliest times man has been engaged in a search for general rules whereby to turn the order of natural phenomena to his own advantage, and in the long search he has scraped together a great hoard of such maxims, some of them golden and some of them mere dross. The true or golden rules constitute the body of applied science which we call the arts; the false are magic.

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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 contact has been severed.

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In point of fact magicians appear to have often developed into chiefs and kings.

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The advance of knowledge is an infinite progression towards a goal that ever recedes.

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With the advance of knowledge, therefore, prayer and sacrifice assume the leading place in religious ritual; and magic; which once ranked with them as a legitimate equal, is gradually relegated to the background and sinks to the level of a black art.

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The question whether our conscious personality survives after death has been answered by almost all races of men in the affirmative.

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