James George Frazer
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A candidate for the priesthood could only succeed to office by slaying the priest, and having slain him, he retained office till he was himself slain by a stronger or a craftier.
— Chapter 1, The King of the Wood.
Sir James George Frazer (* 1. Januar 1854 in Glasgow; † 7. Mai 1941 in Cambridge) war ein schottischer Ethnologe und Klassischer Philologe. Er vertrat eine evolutionistisch orientierte Anthropologie und gilt neben Edward B. Tylor und Émile Durkheim als Mitbegründer der Religionsethnologie.
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A candidate for the priesthood could only succeed to office by slaying the priest, and having slain him, he retained office till he was himself slain by a stronger or a craftier.
The natives of British Columbia live largely upon the fish which abound in their seas and rivers.
For there are strong grounds for thinking that, in the evolution of thought, magic has preceded religion.
But once a fool always a fool, and the greater the power in his hands the more disastrous is likely to be the use he makes of it.
The old notion that the savage is the freest of mankind is the reverse of the truth.
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