Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.


Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art (1942)


Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.

Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.

Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.

Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.