... two : first, that like produces like, or that an effect resembles its cause ; and, second, that things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed. The former... Publication of the American Sociological Society - Page 147by American Sociological Association - 1910Full view - About this book
| John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - History - 1906 - 1070 pages
...won by earlier investigators. In his view, magic rests upon two fundamental principles of thought : " first, that like produces like, or that an effect...Similarity, the latter the Law of Contact or Contagion" (pp. 37-38). From the law of similarity " the magician infers that he can produce any effect he desires... | |
| James Henry Leuba - Psychology, Religious - 1912 - 414 pages
...double form: "Like produces like " and " An effect resembles its cause." From this law, we are told, " the magician infers that he can produce any effect he desires merely by imitating it." But imitation is not in the least a requirement of WillMagic, although it may be superadded. The formula... | |
| Anthropology - 1912 - 856 pages
...double form: "Like produces like," and "An effect resembles its cause." From this law, we are told, the magician infers that he can produce any effect he desires merely by imitating it. But imitation is not in the least a requirement of Will-Magic, although it may be superadded. The formula... | |
| James Henry Leuba - Psychology, Religious - 1912 - 404 pages
...double form : " Like produces like" and " An effect resembles its cause." From this law, we are told, " the magician infers that he can produce any effect he desires merely by imitating it." But imitation is not in the least a requirement of WillMagic, although it may be superadded. The formula... | |
| James H. Leuba - Psychology, Religious - 1912 - 402 pages
...once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed. The former principle may be called the Law of Similarity, latter the Law of Contact or Contagion. From the first of these principles, namely, the Law of Similarity,... | |
| Maurice Arthur Canney - Religion - 1921 - 416 pages
...in contact continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed (the Law of Contact or Contagion). From the first of these principles. " the magician infers that he can produce any effect he desires merely by imitating it"; from the second... | |
| Humphrey John Thewlis Johnson - Fall of man - 1923 - 124 pages
...have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after physical contact has been severed. The former principle may...law of similarity, the latter the law of contact or contagion."1 Upon the failure of magic primitive man was led to suppose the existence of a world of... | |
| L. Krishna Anantha Krishna Iyer (Diwan Bahadur) - Ethnology - 1925 - 376 pages
...an open question to decide to which group a gi^en superstition belongs. From the law of similarity a magician infers that he can produce any effect he desires merely by indicating it, and from the law of contiguity he tries to deduce that whatever he does to a material... | |
| Rafael Karsten - Indian mythology - 1926 - 584 pages
...contact continue to act on each other even after the contact has been severed. The former principle is called the Law of Similarity, the latter the Law of...Contact or Contagion. From the first of these principles the magician infers that he can produce any effect he desires merely by imitating it. From the second... | |
| Rafael Karsten - Indians of South America - 1926 - 606 pages
...contact continue to act on each other even after the contact has been severed. The former principle is called the Law of Similarity, the latter the Law of...Contact or Contagion. From the first of these principles the magician infers that he can produce any effect he desires merely by imitating it. From the second... | |
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