Race Sentiment as a Factor in History: A Lecture Delivered Before the University of London on February 22, 1915 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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And the Folkmot of supposed to be the peculiar g of the Aryan peoples, could be paralleled by the o of South African Basutos, this doctrine withered pp and died. Neither has the attempt to determine racial affinities by the possession of a common stock of superstitions or religious rites and usages been more successful. Whoever looks into that vast treasury of folklore which the lifelong labours of Sir James Frazer have given us in the volumes called The Golden Bough, will find that certain religious beliefs and ceremonial usages have prevailed over most of the world in forms practically identical. Traces survive in Western Europe of superstitions now alive among the aborigines of Queensland. Some day, no doubt, we may discover solid ground for a theory of race origins and race affinities, but at present we are only groping and guessing.

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