The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
For there are strong grounds for thinking that, in the evolution of thought, magic has preceded religion. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
From the earliest times man has been engaged in a search for general rules whereby to turn the order of natural phenomena… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
If the test of truth lay in a show of hands or a counting of heads, the system of magic might appeal,… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
With the advance of knowledge, therefore, prayer and sacrifice assume the leading place in religious ritual; and magic; which once ranked with… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
In point of fact magicians appear to have often developed into chiefs and kings. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
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 Image
I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
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 Image
For there are strong grounds for thinking that, in the evolution of thought, magic has preceded religion. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
![“If the test of truth lay in a show of hands or a counting of heads, the system of magic might appeal, with far more reason than the Catholic Church, to the proud motto, 'Quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus' [always, everywhere, and by all], as the sure and certain credential of its own…” quote by James G. Frazer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f2f/james-g-frazer-17815_appeals_if-the-test-of-truth-lay-in-a-show-of-ha_2522969.jpg)
