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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.”
“Ancient magic was the very foundation of religion.”
“When a tree comes to be viewed, no longer as the body of the tree spirit, but simply as its abode which it can quit at pleasure, an important advance has been made in religious thought.”
“The world cannot live at the level of its great men.”
“The custom of burning a beneficent god is too foreign to later modes of thought to escape misinterpretation.”
“The temple of the sylvan goddess, indeed, has vanished, and the King of the Wood no longer stands sentinel over the Golden Bough.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.
