Some of the old laws of Israel are clearly savage taboos of a familiar type thinly disguised as commands of the Deity.

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.

Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves.

The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.

This doctrine of transmigration or reincarnation of the soul is found among many tribes of savages

The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from his appearances in the past.