...certain features in his cult, amongst others the custom of excluding horses from his sacred grove. Eor myth changes while custom remains constant; men continue...original reason for excluding horses from the grove. From the fact that horses were so excluded it might be inferred that they could not be the sacred animals...

...that shrank concerning which Mr Frazer has given us such interesting details. In the author's view the history of religion is a long attempt to reconcile old custom with new reason, and to find a sound theory for an absurd practice. Therefore he expects to meet with uniformities of...

...art of political and religious healing. ' The history of religion,' " once exclaimed Dr. Fraser, ' is a long attempt to reconcile old custom with new...reason, to find a sound theory for an absurd practice.' . . . The religious " man has to be a man of the world, a man of the wider world, an anthropologist."...

...their fathers acted have been long forgotten," or are positively considered absurd and unpleasant. " The history of religion is a long attempt to reconcile...reason, to find a sound theory for an absurd practice." Chanuka, indeed, commemorates a most important epoch in the world's history: for, had the Jews been...

...that the meaningless customs are fraught with a hidden, symbolic meaning. As Dr. Frazer puts it well: "The history of religion is a long attempt to reconcile...custom with new reason, to find a sound theory for absurd practice." The same holds true in the case of the phenomena of abnormal mental life. There is...

...as religion to the conservative instincts." " The history of religion," once exclaimed Dr. Frazer, " is a long attempt to \ reconcile old custom with new reason, to find ia sound theory for absurd practice." At first sight one is apt to see nothing but the absurdities...

...different countries and the different times. „The history of religion", once exclaimed Dr. Frazer, „is a long attempt to reconcile old custom with new reason, to find a sound theory for absurd practice". The truth of this view is proved by the study of all great students of the history...

...young Joseph offers the following advice — as if indeed he had learned from The Golden Bough that 'the history of religion is a long attempt to reconcile...with new reason, to find a sound theory for an absurd practice':55 If your child may presume that he has been asked, he would advise that the feast be spared...

...this will be reflected in one's characterization of religion. Frazer saw the history of religion as 'a long attempt to reconcile old custom with new reason, to find a sound theory for an absurd practice'. 10 So it is not surprising that he presented his account of early religion as a set of absurd practices....

...trans. John Weightman and Doreen Weightman (1964; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983), 12. long attempt to reconcile old custom with new reason, to find a sound theory for an absurd practice" (GB, 553). 28 These derivative and compensatory mythic inventions have a persistent quality of hallucinatory...