Volume I

THE GOLDEN BOUGH A STUDY IN MAGIC AND RELIGION THIRD EDITION

PART I THE MAGIC ART AND THE EVOLUTION OF KINGS VOL. I

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The Golden Bough. By J. M. W. TURNER, Pinxit.

THE MAGIC ART AND THE EVOLUTION OF KINGS

BY

SIR JAMES GEORGE FRAZER

D.C.L., LL.D., LITT.D.

FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
PROFESSOR OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL

IN TWO VOLUMES
VOL. I

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1917

“Nec indigeste tamquam in acervum congessimus digna memoratu: sed variarum rerum disparilitas, auctoribus diversa confusa temporibus, ita in quoddam digesta corpus est, ut quae indistincte atque promiscue ad subsidium memoriae anno­ta­ver­a­mus in ordinem instar mem­brorum cohaer­entia con­venirent. Nec mihi vitio vertas, si res quas ex lectione varia mutuabor ipsis saepe verbis quibus ab ipsis auctoribus enarratae sunt explicabo, quia praesens opus non eloquentiae ostentationem sed noscendorum congeriem pollicetur: et boni consulas oportet, si notitiam vetustatis modo nostris non obscure modo ipsis antiquorum fideliter verbis recognoscas, prout quaeque se vel enarranda vel transferenda suggesserint. Apes enim quodammodo debemus imitari, quae vagantur et flores carpunt, deinde quicquid attulere disponunt ac per favos dividunt et sucum varium in unum saporem mixtura quadam et proprietate spiritus sui mutant.”

MACROBIUS, Saturnalia, Praefatio.

COPYRIGHT
Third Edition March 1911
Reprinted July 1911, 1913, 1917

TO
MY FRIEND WILLIAM ROBERTSON SMITH IN
GRATITUDE AND ADMIRATION