Magic in names and in other things / by Edward Clodd.

  • Edward Clodd
Date:
1920
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Credit: Magic in names and in other things / by Edward Clodd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER I MAGIC AND RELIGION In an article on 44 magic ” contributed to Hastings’s Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, Dr. Marett says that 44 the problem of its defini¬ tion constitutes a veritable storm-centre in the anthropological literature of to-day.” In this disturbed zone the questions of (1) the origin and elements of magic, and (2) its place in the order of man’s spiritual evolution, are discussed. Upon each of these only brief com¬ ment is here necessary. As to the first question, one set of combatants contend that magic is 44 pseudo-science ” 1—44 the physics of the savage,” as Dr. Adolf Bastian defines it. 44 It cannot,” says Sir Alfred Lyall, 44 be doubted that magic is founded on some dim notion of cause and effect which is the necessary basis of all human reasoning and experience.” 2 1 Primitive Culture, by Sir E. B. Tylor, Vol. I. pp. 112, 119 (Third Edition). 2 Asiatic Studies, 2nd Series, p. 182. E
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