“But once a fool always a fool, and the greater the power in his hands the more disastrous is likely to be the use he makes of it. The heaviest calamity in English history, the breach with America, might never have occurred if George the Third had not been an honest dullard.” IfsUseHandsMightAmericaGreaterHonestFoolThirdsCalamityBreachEnglish History Author:James G. Frazer
“If the test of truth lay in a show of hands or a counting of heads, the system of magic might appeal, with far more reason than the Catholic Church, to the proud motto, 'Quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus' [always, everywhere, and by all], as the sure and certain credential of its own infallibility.” IfsReasonShowsHandsMightCertainChurchMagicProudTestsCatholicLaysAppealsMottoCountingCatholic ChurchInfallibility Author:James G. Frazer
“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.” PeopleSoulMightScienceCommonGet BackPrimitiveSleepers Author:James G. Frazer