“With the advance of knowledge, therefore, prayer and sacrifice assume the leading place in religious ritual; and magic; which once ranked with them as a legitimate equal, is gradually relegated to the background and sinks to the level of a black art.” ArtBlackReligiousPrayerLevelsMagicSacrificeEqualAssumingBackgroundsRitualReligious RitualsBlack Art Author:James G. Frazer
“Yet perhaps no sacrifice is wholly useless which proves there are men who prefer honour to life.” MenSacrificeProveUselessHonour Author:James G. Frazer
“For when a nation becomes civilized, if it does not drop human sacrifices altogether, it at least selects as victims only such wretches as would be put to death at any rate. Thus the killing of a god may sometimes come to be confounded with the execution of a criminal.” IfsHumansMayDoeSometimesWould BeNationsSacrificeVictimKillingRateCriminalsCivilizedExecution Author:James G. Frazer
