 | James George Frazer - Dying and rising gods - 1900 - 510 pages
...explaining it. For recent researches into the early history of man have revealed the essential similariu with which, under many superficial differences, the...has elaborated its first crude philosophy of life. Accon m^ly, , if we can show that a barbarous custom, like th;;t < •> the priesthood of Xcmi, has... | |
 | Grafton Elliot Smith - Anthropology - 1928 - 104 pages
...Frazer's The Golden Bough (abridged edition, 1923, p. 2) : ' Recent researches into the early history of man have revealed the essential similarity with which,...has elaborated its first crude philosophy of life.' Although Sir James Frazer refers to this revelation as ' recent,' he really obtained it from Sir Edward... | |
 | John Baillie - Religion - 1928 - 506 pages
...divergences between them. "Recent researches into the early history of man," says Sir James Frazer, "have revealed the essential similarity with which,...mind has elaborated its first crude philosophy of life."1 "Religion in the lower culture," says another scholar, "takes many forms, but, speaking broadly,... | |
 | World War, 1914-1918 - 1928 - 700 pages
...to be committed without reservation to the theory, the general effect of his teaching was, to reveal the essential similarity with which, under many superficial...has elaborated its first crude philosophy of life, so that, like many more of that day, we were convinced that similar cultures in widely separated areas... | |
 | Folklore - 1969 - 534 pages
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Accordingly if we can show that a barbarous custom, like that of the priesthood of Nemi, has existed elsewhere ; if we can detect the motives which led to its institution ; if we can prove that these motives have operated widely, perhaps universally,... 
