...estos influjos mágicos. <The fatal flaw of magic lies not in its general aesumption of a succesion of events determined by law, but in its total misconception of the nature of the particular laws wbich govern that succession. If we analyse the various cases of sympathetic III.MÍ.MI-.. we shall...

...celestial city, far off, it may be, but radiant with unearthly splendour, bathed in the light of dreams. The fatal flaw of magic lies not in its general assumption of a sequence of events determined by law, but in its total misconception of the nature of the particular...

...conforms to " what may be called the laws of nature as conceived by him." " The fatal flaw of magic lies in its total misconception of the nature of the particular laws which govern the sequence of events." 1 Leuba adduces two facts, which he holds supports his view that science is...

...precisely, the elements of caprice, of chance, and of accident are banished from the course of nature. . . . The fatal flaw of magic lies not in its general assumption of a sequence of events determined by law, but in its total misconception of the nature of the particular...

...law, but in its total misconception of the nature of the particular laws which govern that sequence. If we analyse the various cases of sympathetic magic...taken as fair samples of the bulk, we shall find, as I have already indicated, that they are all mistaken applications of one or other of two great fundamental...

...science, which open up a boundless vista to those who can penetrate to the secret springs of nature. The fatal flaw of magic lies not in its general assumption of the uniformity of nature, but in its misapprehension of the particular laws which govern the sequence...

...incantations should chance to be thwarted and spoiled by the more potent charms of another sorcerer. . . . The fatal flaw of magic lies not in Its general assumption of a succession of events* . * . but In its total misconceptions of the nature of ... that succession ... In ancient Egypt the...

...nature. 17 Thus, assuming that a deterministic form of the uniformity principle is correct, Frazer says: "the fatal flaw of magic lies not in its general assumption of a sequence of events determined by law, but in its total misconception of the nature of the particular...

...due to its strongly evolutionary basis. The material chosen here illustrates many of these issues. The fatal flaw of magic lies not in its general assumption of a sequence of events determined by law, but in its total misconception of the nature of the particular...

.... Thus the analogy between the magical and the scientific conceptions of the world is close. . . . The fatal flaw of magic lies not in its general assumption...determined by law, but in its total misconception of the particular laws which govern that succession. . . . A mistaken association of similar ideas produces...