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Morgant?" Taran asked, turning a puzzled glance to Gwydion. "How can there be honor for such a man?" "It is easy to judge evil unmixed," replied Gwydion. "But, alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging.

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

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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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