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The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

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The old notion that the savage is the freest of mankind is the reverse of the truth. He is a slave, not indeed to a visible master, but to the past, to the spirits of his dead forefathers, who haunt his steps from birth to death, and rule him with a rod of iron.

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The notion that we can transfer our guilt and sufferings to some other being who will bear them for us is familiar to the savage mind. It arises from a very obvious confusion between the physical and the mental, between the material and the immaterial.

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When all is said and done our resemblances to the savage are still far more numerous than our differences from him.

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Some of the old laws of Israel are clearly savage taboos of a familiar type thinly disguised as commands of the Deity.

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James Frazer

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