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

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A lot of people that I've had around me have been my closest friends since junior high, back when we were exchanging each other's clothes, staying at each other's houses. That was before I had anything.

James G. Frazer

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

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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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