 ... produce. This great discovery of the inefficacy of magic must have wrought a radical though probably slow revolution in the minds of those who had the sagacity to make it. The discovery amounted to this, that men for the first time recognised their...  The king of the wood. The perils of the soul - Page 82by James George Frazer - 1900Full view - About this book
 | Folklore Society (Great Britain) - Folklore - 1904 - 588 pages
...magic reigned supreme, and religion was not. But time and trial proved magic to be a broken reed. " Man saw that he had taken for causes what were no...pulling at strings to which nothing was attached." Whereupon "our primitive philosopher" (and truly, we may say, did that savage of "deeper mind" and... | |
 | Robert Ranulph Marett - Religion - 1909 - 228 pages
...magic reigned supreme, and religion was not. But time and trial proved magic to be a broken reed. " Man saw that he had taken for causes what were no...pulling at strings to which nothing was attached." Whereupon " our primitive philosopher " (and truly, we may say, did that savage of " deeper mind "... | |
 | Robert Ranulph Marett - Religion - 1914 - 282 pages
...saw that he had taken for causes what were no causes, and that all his efforts 'GB,'\. 73«., 75to work by means of these imaginary causes had been vain....pulling at strings to which nothing was attached. ' ' Whereupon "our primitive philosopher ' ' (and truly, we may say, did that savage of " deeper mind... | |
 | Robert Ranulph Marett - Religion - 1914 - 296 pages
...magic reigned supreme, and religion was not. But time and trial proved magic to be a broken reed. " Man saw that he had taken for causes what were no causes, and that all his efforts 1 GB,'i. 73«., 75. to work by means of these imaginary causes had been vain. His painful toil had... | |
 | James George Frazer - Philosophy - 1927 - 468 pages
...had the sagacity to make it. The discovery amounted to this, that men for the first time recognized their inability to manipulate at pleasure certain...; he had been marching, as he thought, straight to the goal, while in reality he had only been treading in a narrow circle. Not that the effects which... | |
 | Herbert Read, Sir Herbert Edward Read - English language - 1928 - 262 pages
...her resources to account. The shrewder intelligences must in time have come to perceive that magical ceremonies and incantations did not really effect...; he had been marching, as he thought, straight to the goal, while in reality he had only been treading in a narrow circle. Not that the effects which... | |
 | Ernst Cassirer - Philosophy - 1944 - 254 pages
...and breakdown of magic paved the way to religion. Magic had to collapse that religion might arise. "Man saw that he had taken for causes what were no...pulling at strings to which nothing was attached." It was in despairing of magic that man found religion and that he discovered its true sense. "If the... | |
 | Turner B S Staff - Philosophy - 2004 - 202 pages
...magic reigned supreme, and religion was not. But time and trial proved magic to be a broken reed. " Man saw that he had taken for causes what were no...pulling at strings to which nothing was attached." Whereupon " our primitive philosopher " (and truly, we may say, did that savage of " deeper mind "... | |
 | D. Z. Phillips - Religion - 2001 - 348 pages
...the perceived lack of correlation between magical rituals and what actually happened. Frazer says: 'Man saw that he had taken for causes what were no...by means of these imaginary causes had been vain. He had been pulling at 39 Ibid., p. 292. w Ibid. strings to which nothing was attached.' 42 How does... | |
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