Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of … - James G. Frazer

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Music, I suppose, will be the thing that sustains me in the time of my life when I am too old for sex and not quite ready to meet God. It has always been an essential part of me.

James G. Frazer

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 his appearances in the past.

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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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