...of religion, ami was clearly apprehended and sharply main- disposed to clas> magic loosely under it. as it treats inanimate agents — that is, it constrains...conciliating or propitiating them as religion would do. In ancient Egypt, for example, the magicians claimed the power of compelling even the highest gods...

...(good or bad). ' Whenever it does so in its proper form ' (ie as magic unalloyed with religion), ' it treats them exactly in the same fashion as it treats...inanimate agents — that is, it constrains or coerces ' them. The definition of magic in this aspect given by Principal Whitehouse in his article on ' Magic,...

...from Dr. Frazer : " It is true that magic often deals with spirits . . . but whenever it does so ... it constrains or coerces, instead of conciliating or propitiating them as religion would do." 8. But how came these supernal to be developed into the supernatural beings of religion, defined as...

...acting mechanically. In magic, indeed, the assumption is only implicit, but in science it is explicit. It is true that magic often deals with spirits, which...conciliating or propitiating them as religion would do Yet though magic is thus found to fuse and amalgamate with religion in many ages and in many lands,...

...modification. Magic, like religion, deals, no doubt, with spirits, but it treats them as ' inanimate agents, ie it constrains or coerces instead of conciliating or propitiating them as religion would do'. It takes all personal beings, whether human or divine, as subject in the last resort to impersonal...

...acting mechanically. In magic, indeed, the assumption is only implicit, but in science it is explicit. It is true that magic often deals with spirits, which...conciliating or propitiating them as religion would do. Thus it assumes that all personal beings, whether human or divine, are in the last resort subject to...

...the kind assumed by religion; but whenever it does so in its proper form, it treats them in exactly the same fashion as it treats inanimate agents, that...conciliating or propitiating them as religion would do. Thus it assumes that all personal beings, whether human beings or divine, are in the last resort subject...

...in Primitive Culture. 48 Frazer 1900, Vol. I: 52 53. if they were "inanimate agents, that is, [he] constrains or coerces instead of conciliating or propitiating them as religion would do".10 In the end, the entire distinction between religion and (sympathetic) magic appears to revolve...

...acting mechanically. In magic, indeed, the assumption is only implicit, but in science it is explicit. It is true that magic often deals with spirits, which...conciliating or propitiating them as religion would do.9 Another influential nominal approach to magic stems from Hubert and Mauss,1" who were so impressed...

...deals with spirits, which are personal agents of the kind assumed by religion', whenever it does so 'it treats them exactly in the same fashion as it...inanimate agents, that is, it constrains or coerces them instead of conciliating or propitiating them as religion would do'.10 Malinowski, while differing...