It is for the philosophic student to trace the train of thought which underlies the magicians practice; to draw out the few simple threads of which the tangled skein is composed; to disengage the abstract principles from their concrete applications; in short, to discern the spurious science from the bastard art.


Chapter 3, Sympathetic Magic. - The Golden Bough (1890)

James Frazer Quotes

It is for the philosophic student to trace the train of thought which underlies the magicians practice; to draw out the few simple threads of which...

It is for the philosophic student to trace the train of thought which underlies the magicians practice; to draw out the few simple threads of which...

It is for the philosophic student to trace the train of thought which underlies the magicians practice; to draw out the few simple threads of which...

It is for the philosophic student to trace the train of thought which underlies the magicians practice; to draw out the few simple threads of which...