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James Frazer

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Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages, for they are not as far removed from the understanding of spiritual matter as a twentieth-century Englishman. His explanations of primitive practices are much cruder than the meaning of these practices themselves.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein, in Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951 (1993), edited by James Carl Klagge and Alfred Nordmann; Ch. 7 : Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough, p. 131

 
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