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The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man.

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The scapegoat upon whom the sins of the people are periodically laid, may also be a human being.

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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.

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For when a nation becomes civilized, if it does not drop human sacrifices altogether, it at least selects as victims only such wretches as would be put to death at any rate. Thus the killing of a god may sometimes come to be confounded with the execution of a criminal.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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James Frazer

James Frazer
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Born: January 1, 1854
Died: May 7, 1941 (aged 87)
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