James G. Frazer
James G. Frazer
Sir James George Frazer OM FRS FRSE FBA, was a Scottish social anthropologist influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion. He is often considered one of the founding fathers of modern anthropology...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth1 January 1854
sacrifice men useless
Yet perhaps no sacrifice is wholly useless which proves there are men who prefer honour to life.
men predicaments creatures
Man has created gods in his own likeness and being himself mortal he has naturally supposed his creatures to be in the same sad predicament.
family mother men
The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.
men primitive-man suffering
The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man.
philosophy men sight
Dwellers by the sea cannot fail to be impressed by the sight of its ceaseless ebb and flow, and are apt, on the principles of that rude philosophy of sympathy and resemblance...to trace a subtle relation, a secret harmony , between its tides and the life of man...The belief that most deaths happen at ebb tide is said to be held along the east coast of England from Northumberland to Kent.
art men order
From the earliest times man has been engaged in a search for general rules whereby to turn the order of natural phenomena to his own advantage, and in the long search he has scraped together a great hoard of such maxims, some of them golden and some of them mere dross. The true or golden rules constitute the body of applied science which we call the arts; the false are magic.
men hair logic
I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic.
men practice class
In primitive society, where uniformity of occupation is the rule, and the distribution of the community into various classes of workers has hardly begun, every man is more or less his own magician; he practices charms and incantations for his own good and the injury of his enemies.
men world levels
The world cannot live at the level of its great men.
men views two-sides
The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.
men afterlife race
The question whether our conscious personality survives after death has been answered by almost all races of men in the affirmative.
men religion human-life
By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.
facts fit accepting
The slow, the never ending approach to truth consists in perpetually forming and testing hypotheses, accepting those at which at the time seem to fit the facts and rejecting the others.
development study influence
Indeed the influence of music on the development of religion is a subject which would repay a sympathetic study.