...some kind, and by religion we may understand " a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior toman which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life." .. , In this sense it will readily be perceived The jolden Bough, I, page 63. . , ,....

...and even opposition of principle between magic and religion.'"2 On this view he defines religion as "a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control i Since this was written there has appeared the essay Sar le tutemimae of M. Durkheim (L'Annee Nociolo,tique,...

...to favor the argument than to correspond to the facts of history. Religion, with this author, is " a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior...and control the course of nature and human life." 2 It is to be expected, then, that when the means provided by magic fail to propitiate or control these...

...different grades of experience. Hence as regards Frazier's definition of religion as " the propitiation and conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed...and control the course of nature and human life," we can only say that it depends for its truth entirely upon the stage of culture and upon the form...

...be added to this derivation. Frazer understands by religion "a propitiation or Frazer'i definition. conciliation of powers superior to man, which are...believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life. In this sense it will readily be perceived that religion is opposed in principle both...

...gerade diese Bezeichnung vorgeschlagen hat. Es ist sehr bemerkenswert, bei aller Vorsicht, " FRAZER, .A propitiation or conciliation of powers superior...and control the course of nature and human life.' The Golden Bough, I (191 1), p. 53; bei EHRLICH, S. 20. 41 PREUSS, S. 36 ff. 44 EHRLICH. S. 63 f.;...

...very different conclusions to which I have myself been led. " By religion," he says, " I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior...believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life. And,1' he continues, " in this sense it will readily be perceived that religion is opposed...

...the second edition, published ten years later (1900), it is openly hostile. Eeligion is defined as 'a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior...believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life,' and is therefore ' opposed in principle to science.' For what ' assumes the world to...

...argument that religion is superseded by science may be true if religion means no more than this—" a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior...believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life " and if " a conscious or personal agent," whose "conduct is in some measure uncertain,...

...to employ the word consistently in that sense throughout his work. By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior...believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life. In this sense it will readily be perceived that religion is opposed in principle both...