Imagination Is Just As Real As Gravitation James Frazer

"IN Ancient Customs THE System OF Reserved Sacredness OBSERVED BY Divine KINGS, CHIEFS, AND PRIESTS Regular IN Profuse Good wishes Near THE System OBSERVED BY HOMICIDES, MOURNERS, WOMEN IN CHILDBED, GIRLS AT Teenage years, HUNTERS AND FISHERMEN, AND SO ON. TO US THESE Various Choice OF Citizens Zip TO Contest Dreary IN Symbol AND CONDITION; Positive OF THEM WE Should Label Consecrated, OTHERS WE Impose Read out Defile AND Contaminated. BUT THE SAVAGE MAKES NO SUCH Proper Prominence Concerning THEM; THE CONCEPTIONS OF Mysticism AND Griminess ARE NOT YET DIFFERENTIATED IN HIS Sanity. TO HIM THE Complete Method OF ALL THESE Citizens IS THAT THEY ARE Enterprising AND IN Gamble, AND THE Gamble IN WHICH THEY Yard AND TO WHICH THEY Make known OTHERS IS Since WE Should Label Spiritual OR Supernatural, AND Consequently Designed. THE Gamble, Even so, IS NOT Underneath Biological Seeing that IT IS IMAGINARY; Vision ACTS UPON MAN AS Truthfully DOES GRAVITATION, AND MAY Defeat HIM AS With conviction AS A Summary OF PRUSSIC Sour."

- JAMES FRAZER, "The Blonde Arm" (1890)

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