For extending its sway, partly by force of arms, partly by the voluntary submission of weaker tribes, the community soon acquires wealth and slaves, both of which, by relieving some classes from the perpetual struggle for a bare subsistence, afford them an opportunity of devoting themselves to that disinterested pursuit of knowledge which is the noblest and most powerful instrument to ameliorate the lot of man.
James G. FrazerThe moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux.
James G. FrazerThis doctrine of transmigration or reincarnation of the soul is found among many tribes of savages
James G. FrazerThe awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.
James G. Frazer