Psyche's Task: A Discourse Concerning the Influence of Superstition on The Growth of Institutions

Frazer, J.G. [James George]

Published by MacMillan & Co, London, 1909

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8vo. ix, 84 p.p. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine, spine sunned, corners lightly bumped, and head of spine lightly rubbed. Offsetting to flyleaf. Clean throughout. Scarce. A series of lectures by Scottish social anthropologist Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941), author of the massive and influential study "The Golden Bough." In these lectures Frazer looks at the role that superstition played in the early history of a number of standard institutions: Government, Private Property, Marriage, and Respect for Human Life; and suggests that all can be taken as evidence that sometimes "folly mysteriously deviates into wisdom, and good comes out of evil.".

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Psyche's Task: A Discourse Concerning the Influence of Superstition on The Growth of Institutions

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MacMillan & Co, London

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1909

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Hardcover

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1st Edition.

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Very Good

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