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For myth changes while custom remains constant; men continue to do what their did before them, though the reasons on which their fathers acted have been long forgotten. The history of religion is a long attempt to reconcile old custom with new reason, to find a sound theory for an absurd practice.
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If any of my readers set out with the notion that that all races of men think and act much in the same way as educated Englishmen, the evidence of superstitious belief and custom collected in this work should suffice to disabuse him of so erroneous a prepossession.
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The custom of burning a beneficent god is too foreign to later modes of thought to escape misinterpretation.
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It may be suspected that the custom of employing a divine man or animal as a public scapegoat is much more widely diffused than appears from the examples cited.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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Born:
January 1, 1854
Died:
May 7, 1941
(aged 87)
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