“If the test of truth lay in a show of hands or a counting of heads, the system of magic might appeal, with far more reason than the Catholic Church, to the proud motto, Quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus [always, everywhere, and by all], as the sure and certain credential of its own infallibility.”

— James Frazer , book The Golden Bough

Source: The Golden Bough (1890), Chapter 4, Magic and Religion.

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Scottish social anthropologist 1854–1941

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