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The Golden Bough (1890)
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With the advance of knowledge, therefore, prayer and sacrifice assume the leading place in religious ritual; and magic; which once ranked with them as a legitimate equal, is gradually relegated to the background and sinks to the level of a black art.
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It is not a new opinion that the Golden Bough was the mistletoe. True, Virgil does not identify but only compares it with the mistletoe. But this may be only a poetical device to cast a mystic glamour over the humble plant.
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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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January 1, 1854
Died:
May 7, 1941
(aged 87)
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