Note 51 — Chapter II · Magic: Its Origins and Relations to Science

This view is set forth at length in J. G. Frazer’s The Golden Bough (3 vols., London, 1900). The book also furnishes many illustrations of the magic of primitive man. Mr. Frazer holds that “religion” supplanted magic and is in turn itself being supplanted by science. His definition of religion would probably not be generally accepted.