The Development of Religion a Study in Anthropology And Social Psychology
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''This old happy confidence in himself and his powers was rudely shaken. He must have been sadly per- plexed and agitated till he came to rest, as in a quiet haven after a tempestuous voyage, in a new system of faith and practice. ... It was they (i. E. The superior spirits), as he now believed, and not he himself, who made the strong wind to blow. " ^ Such is Frazer's theory of the origin of religion out of magic. We have described it in some detail because it serves by con- trast to render cl...earer the view of the matter here presented. His hypothesis is logical and clear when taken as a thing in itself, but when taken in connection with objective conditions * Frazer, op. Cit. , Vol. I, pp. 124, 130. 2 Ibid. , p. 63. ' Ibid. , p. 77, condensed. MAGIC AND RELIGION 169 it violates, we believe, almost every principle of the psychology of primitive peoples. It bears every evidence of having been worked out a priori, and, when once possessed of it, its in- ventor has persistently seen every detail of anthropological science which has the slightest connection with religion or magic in its light.
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