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Ancient magic was the very foundation of religion.
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The world cannot live at the level of its great men.
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For the present we have journeyed far enough together, and it is time to part.
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In point of fact magicians appear to have often developed into chiefs and kings.
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The advance of knowledge is an infinite progression towards a goal that ever recedes.
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From time immemorial the mistletoe has been the object of superstitious veneration in Europe.
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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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Yet perhaps no sacrifice is wholly useless which proves there are men who prefer honour to life.
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I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic.
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The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man.
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If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime.
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For there are strong grounds for thinking that, in the evolution of thought, magic has preceded religion.
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We seem to move on a thin crust which may at any moment be rent by the subterranean forces slumbering below.
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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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The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux.
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Indeed the influence of music on the development of religion is a subject which would repay a sympathetic study.
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Imagination works upon man as really as does gravitation, and may kill him as certainly as a dose of prussic acid.
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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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The temple of the sylvan goddess, indeed, has vanished, and the King of the Wood no longer stands sentinel over the Golden Bough.
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The question whether our conscious personality survives after death has been answered by almost all races of men in the affirmative.
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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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To a modern reader the connexion at first site may not be obvious between the activity of the hangman and the productivity of the earth.
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Man has created gods in his own likeness and being himself mortal he has naturally supposed his creatures to be in the same sad predicament.
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If their king is their god, he is or should be also their preserver; and if he will not preserve them, he must make room for another who will.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
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Born:
January 1, 1854
Died:
May 7, 1941
(aged 87)
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