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

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

The world cannot live at the level of its great men.

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.

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

The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux.

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