James G. Frazer Quotes About Soul
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This doctrine of transmigration or reincarnation of the soul is found among many tribes of savages
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Yet it would be unfair to the generality of our kind to ascribe to their intellectual and moral weakness the gradual divergence of Buddhism and Christianity from their primitive patterns. For it should not be forgotten that by their glorification of poverty and celibacy both these religions struck straight at the root not merely of civil society but of human existence. The blow was parried by the wisdom or the folly of the vast majority of mankind, who refused to purchase a chance of saving their souls with the certainty of extinguishing the species.
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It is a common rule with primitive people not to waken a sleeper, because his soul is away and might not have time to get back.
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