"THE GOLDEN BOUGH."

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1998, 4 March 1914, Page 8

"THE GOLDEN BOUGH."

£BMSTIANITtf' AND ANTHjiQ. 111 an arti.cfe in tho "Miiiisljestet Guardian" on. Bh if. 0. Frasor's "QoMw BetigV'iii its teaTiftg *tt tho history of rQliijioii,' t'lip' Writer. .• a.ts s— 'It jieyd.s* ji treatise to iiidjeato the attitude. 'Christian thought may -fduiJt in' refcfe.nec'.to the.- young Wiciico -of. ait-: ■thropology; • 1 ■should' tovfl no bbje.c-, tiou ;yhat(3vef to despond with one.; for ■ hi: I'xaser'iS work hits, been to ftS for , yeafs'tt stiinwlus and".a help in all my'thriikingj. and' 1 'have many ft ttirte: made .opportunities of -tcllfiig iuy comrades wiiy 1 lirizs it si's a lev to miiclr that ciso wero ii.isfllii.W'e, Put thei* is. dp space- i>e.fe. &f »■ t-reatiise, and -jjp ■ place fai v ilieciibgrcal ftrgHmfin-t- I 'FJU nnly say that, those, who expect to'find., in '"The G'aldou Bough" a tlc-adl^, oiU : slsugiit upon oiiWtfrn dogmas w-tll' H-o I sur'Wisod at soiiW things they . see, ■ They will read ill oiic Rue: pro'facc/ of : "the subl.fme' of a god Who- ■ dies to take Away the sins ol a world I '-'.,;. ; and they ftiaVj ueriiaps, m oil to .as : k : vvhfithef Ti'hat is admittedly "'sub{ihvis" eaftimt put in a fair elaitis. to b> ereil as p'flssihly triip after a;!]. They. will'wbtiw a Scvek and. svcjglity jtebfiKj} ,, to the dilettalite icit)ii:Ge -of jKreitf's ajiti; Robertson : "To dissolve tlifi pbiindef of. a myth, tfs :so'njc ■Jvouicl(h, 'is -haJfUlj , less iibsu.r.d. than. it wpitld he to do the. samo- fo'r Moffa.iflmed, Iftrf-heT, wi 'GflMil. 'Sfich dissoiv'ing views aro for th.p iiios* part; the- ftre.anVs ■of 'stijdonts , wOio fcfe , tho wo'plct miikily tliTaugh its pajp fcfl<?6t'ibn. ru; tab."/ , Afld in tljo 'Bhovi/ b'itt west lin.prfissivi! elraptcr that .up tj.e: jlcssdits (if the \yli ; ple- iiffi.Miry they wo'uJd. fj'ijd t-.li.at if jijaßie, .fcligion, -and so'iencd n*e dostribeT iis a inejifc i)F the, liiiiirah mind,, it is Dnj-y. '■'Wliftkit feearif<Hl as jiii Gxpiaiiatioii of; Nsjtii'rp" wli.icli '■is I>t, sdeiice," -Oiir .fflticTcfn'c'asty for felf-i uijm Itfares science to its own Mil liefo. 1 ftithoiH 9 sigh, of regret; m are eflft-. .pernocl only wi'th the province rif co.n(tucfi, wh.W'ciii ■rel.igie.fi holds its inlsce-dux challenged on the cvjtter.ico of patent