Abstract
THE historical applications of Prof. Frazer's researches in early religion may be said to culminate in his study of the distinctive cults of ancient Syria, Phrygia, and Egypt. For through the agency of these three worships, spreading as they did through Greco-Roman Europe two thousand years ago, a continuity was established between the barbarism which was past and the civilisation which was coming. The link thus formed was, not to put too fine a point upon it, the Christian religion. Prof. Frazer regards the founder, of Christianity as a historical personage, like Buddha, and both religions, so similar in their ideals, as ethical revolutions, aiming at a higher life than was possible for the majority of mankind.
The Golden Bough: a Study in Magic and Religion.
By Prof. J. G. Frazer. Third edition. Part iv., Adonis, Attis, Osiris: Studies in the History of Oriental Religion. Third edition, revised and enlarged. Vol. i., pp. xvii + 317. Vol. ii., pp. x + 321. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1914.) Price, 2 vols., 20s. net.
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CRAWLEY, A. The Golden Bough: a Study in Magic and Religion . Nature 93, 476–477 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/093476a0
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