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For there are strong grounds for thinking that, in the evolution of thought, magic has preceded religion .

Yet perhaps no sacrifice is wholly useless which proves there are men who prefer honour to life.

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

Indeed the influence of music on the development of religion is a subject which would repay a sympathetic study.

Some of the old laws of Israel are clearly savage taboos of a familiar type thinly disguised as commands of the Deity.

The temple of the sylvan goddess, indeed, has vanished, and the King of the Wood no longer stands sentinel over the Golden Bough.

The world cannot live at the level of its great men.

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

Man has created gods in his own likeness and being himself mortal he has naturally supposed his creatures to be in the same sad predicament.

It is a common rule with primitive people not to waken a sleeper, because his soul is away and might not have time to get back.

The custom of burning a beneficent god is too foreign to later modes of thought to escape misinterpretation.

The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man.

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

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

I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic.

The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

This doctrine of transmigration or reincarnation of the soul is found among many tribes of savages

The scapegoat upon whom the sins of the people are periodically laid, may also be a human being.

If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime.