Author: James G. Frazer

Quotes

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 our complex and many-sided being.

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 our complex and many-sided being.

- James G. Frazer

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

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

- James G. Frazer

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

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

- James G. Frazer

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