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

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.

By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.

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

The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed.

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.