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A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

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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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