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THE BELIEF IN IMMORTALITY
AND THE WORSHIP OF THE
DEAD
BY
J. G. FRAZER, D.C.L., LL.D., Litt.D.
FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
PROFESSOR OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE
UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL.
VOL. I
THE BELIEF AMONG THE ABORIGINES OF AUSTRALIA, THE
TORRES STRAITS ISLANDS, NEW GUINEA AND MELANESIA
THE GIFFORD LECTURES, ST. ANDREWS 1911-1912
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON
1913
Itaque unum illud erat insitum priscis illis, quos cascos appellat Ennius, esse in morte sensum neque excessu vitae sic deleri hominem, ut funditus interiret; idque cum multis aliis rebus; tum e pontificio jure et e caerimoniis sepulchrorum intellegi licet, quas maxumis ingeniis praediti nec tanta cura coluissent nec violatas tam inexpiabili religione sanxissent, nisi haereret in corum mentibus mortem non interitum esse omnia tollentem atque delentem, sed quandam quasi migrationem commutationemque vitae."
CƗŕŧǡLj, Tuscul. Disput. i. 12.
TO MY OLD FRIEND
JOHN SUTHERLAND BLACK, LL.D.
I DEDICATE AFFECTIONATELY
A WORK
WHICH OWES MUCH TO HIS ENCOURAGEMENT
PREFACE
The following lectures were delivered on Lord Gifford's Foundation before the University of St. Andrews in the early winters of 1911 and
1912. They are printed nearly as they were spoken, except that a few passages, omitted for the sake of brevity in the oral delivery, have been here restored and a few more added. Further, I have compressed the two introductory lectures into one, striking out some passages which on reflection I judged to be irrelevant or superfluous. The volume incorporates twelve lectures on "The Fear and Worship of the
Dead" which I delivered in the Lent and Easter terms of 1911 at
Trinity College, Cambridge, and repeated, with large additions, in my
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