James G. Frazer Quotes


I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic.


Citations

Frazer, James G. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion. Macmillan, 1922, p. 51.

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James G. Frazer
James G. Frazer
  • Born: January 1, 1854
  • Died: May 7, 1941
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Scientist

Sir James George Frazer OM FRS FRSE FBA was a Scottish social anthropologist and folklorist influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion. His most famous work, The Golden Bough (1890), documents and details the similarities among magical and religious beliefs around the world. Frazer posited that human belief progressed through three stages: primitive magic, replaced by religion, in turn replaced by science.