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 put to death at any rate. Thus the killing of a god may sometimes… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
But once a fool always a fool, and the greater the power in his hands the more disastrous is likely to be the use… — James G. Frazer Copy Share
The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only… — James G. Frazer Copy Share
Dwellers by the sea cannot fail to be impressed by the sight of its ceaseless ebb and flow, and are apt, on the principles… — James G. Frazer Copy Share
In point of fact magicians appear to have often developed into chiefs and kings. — James G. Frazer Copy Share
For when a nation becomes civilized, if it does not drop human sacrifices altogether, it at least selects as victims only such wretches as… — James G. Frazer Copy Share
I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic. — James G. Frazer Copy Share
The slow, the never ending approach to truth consists in perpetually forming and testing hypotheses, accepting those at which at the time seem to… — James G. Frazer Copy Share
The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance… — James G. Frazer Copy Share
The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man. — James G. Frazer Copy Share
Some of the old laws of Israel are clearly savage taboos of a familiar type thinly disguised as commands of the Deity. — James G. Frazer Copy Share
For there are strong grounds for thinking that, in the evolution of thought, magic has preceded religion. — James G. Frazer Copy Share
If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime. — James G. Frazer Copy Share
Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed… — James G. Frazer Copy Share
The temple of the sylvan goddess, indeed, has vanished, and the King of the Wood no longer stands sentinel over the Golden Bough. — James G. Frazer Copy Share
