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ONE good thing the anthropologists have certainly done, in their delving and groping amongst the foundations .of man's history and nature: they have rescued magic from the contempt into which it had been plunged by the narrow self-complacence of Victorian pragmatic science, and restored it to its place as a necessary and wholesome step in man's progress towards religion and an intellectual culture. It gives one a slight shock to discover a close, though possibly bloody parallel, in some fierce nature-rite of New Guinea or the Society Isles, for such pleasant old customs of our own as Hallowe'en celebrations or Jack-in-the-Green. Mr. Marett, who is University Reader in Social Anthropology at Oxford, is tracing the Making of Man. '

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