In magic man depends on his own strength to meet the difficulties and dangers that beset him on every side. He believes in a certain established order of nature on which he can surely count, and which he can manipulate for his own ends. The Origin of Priesthood - Side 172af Gunnar Landtman - 1905 - 217 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
| 1915 - 394 sider
...304-5) that the progress of thought has been from magic through religion to science, that man first believes in a certain established order of nature...count and which he can manipulate for his own ends, and that he falls back on great invisible beings when he finds that both the order and the control... | |
| James George Frazer - 1900 - 522 sider
...thought, so far as we can trace it, has on the whole been from magic through religion to science. In magic man depends on his own strength to meet the difficulties...count, and which he can manipulate for his own ends. When he discovers his mistake ; when he recognises sadly that both the order of nature which he had... | |
| Folklore Society (Great Britain) - 1901 - 640 sider
...succession of natural phenomena as regulated by the will." Man begins by finding himself in presence of "a certain established order of nature on which he...count and which he can manipulate for his own ends " by means of magic, which no more implies a belief in the existence of spirits than science does.... | |
| Sociological Society - 1906 - 334 sider
...the history of Religion. Dr. Frazer, deriving it directly from magic, thus writes : — " In magic man depends on his own strength to meet the difficulties...count, and which he can manipulate for his own ends. When he discovers his mistake, when he recognises sadly that both the order of Nature which he had... | |
| Havelock Ellis - 1923 - 404 sider
...point out that Man has passed through the three stages of magic, religion, and science. " In magic Man depends on his own strength to meet the difficulties...count, and which he can manipulate for his own ends." Then he finds he has overestimated his own powers and he humbly takes the road of religion, leaving... | |
| havelock ellis - 1923 - 404 sider
...of magic, religion, and science. " In magic Man depends on his own strength to meet the difficult^es and dangers that beset him on every side. He believes...count, and which he can manipulate for his own ends." Then he finds he has overestimated his own powers and he humbly takes the road of religion, leaving... | |
| Havelock Ellis - 1923 - 368 sider
...point out that Man has passed through the three stages of magic, religion, and science. ' In magic Man depends on his own strength to meet the difficulties...dangers that beset him on every side. He believes in a cer' The Threshold of Religion (1914), p. 48. ' Zrntratbtatt fur Psychoanalyse (1911), p. 272. > Gulden... | |
| James George Frazer - 1927 - 468 sider
...thought, so far as we can trace it, has on the whole been from magic through religion to science. In magic man depends on his own strength to meet the difficulties...beset him on every side. He believes in a certain 1 The Golden Bough, Part VII. Balder the Beautiful, vol. ii. pp. 304-308. established order of nature... | |
| Angus Stewart Woodburne - 1927 - 376 sider
...his position as follows: In magic man depends on his own strength to meet the difficulties and danger that beset him on every side. He believes in a certain established order of nature which he can manipulate for his own ends. When he discovers his own mistake, when he recognizes sadly... | |
| Harry Slochower - 1970 - 376 sider
...1929]) sees a form of science in the magical practices of early man, in that the primitive believed "in a certain established order of nature on which...count, and which he can manipulate for his own ends." To be sure, primitive man errs in his notion of the nature of this order, and when he finds that his... | |
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