James George Frazer: 17 books
by Sir James George Frazer
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
To drop metaphor, while nominally investigating a particular problem of ancient mythology, I have really been discussing questions of more general interest which concern the gradual evolution of human thought from savagery to civilization. The enquiry is beset with difficulties of many kinds, for the...
by Sir James George Frazer
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Natural theology, and the three modes of handling it, the dogmatic, the philosophical, and the historical. The subject of these lectures is a branch of natural theology. By natural theology I understand that reasoned knowledge of a God or gods which man may be supposed, whether rightly or wrongly, capable...
by James George Frazer
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
It may be reckoned a peculiar piece of good fortune that among the wreckage of classical literature the Description of Greece by Pausanias should have come down to us entire. In this work we possess a plain, unvarnished account by an eye-witness of the state of Greece in the second century of our...
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