James G. Frazer Quotes about Magic

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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.

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.

James G. Frazer

Distance, Magic, Principles

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

James G. Frazer

Strong, Thinking, Magic

"The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

If the test of truth lay in a show of hands or a counting of heads, the system of magic might appeal, with far more reason than the Catholic Church, to the proud motto, 'Quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus' [always, everywhere, and by all], as the sure and certain credential of its own infallibility.

James G. Frazer

Hands, Catholic, Magic

"The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.