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“Andrew Lang, The Making of Religion, Longmans, Green and Co., 1909.”

“If indeed there be a god in heaven.”

“Among the various forms of science which are reaching and affecting the new popular tradition, we have reckoned Anthropology. Pleasantly enough, Anthropology has herself but recently emerged from that limbo of the unrecognised in which Psychical Research is pining.”

“Andrew Lang, Letters to Dead Authors, transcribed from the 1886 Longman's edition.”

Resonant Thoughts

"It is a fact that we historians are interested in what is partly a reflection of ourselves, perhaps a part of ourselves we would rather not examine except through the medium of scholarship; it is also…"

— Elizabeth Kostova

Literature1964

#time

"Fraud aside, we should have known better. We should have known that investments in transforming technologies have often proved unrewarding for investors. In the 1850s, the railroad was widely expected…"

— Burton Malkiel

Literature1932

#philosophy

"The army in the Liberated Areas must support the government and cherish the people, while the democratic governments must lead the people in the work of supporting the army and giving preferential tre…"

— Mao Zedong

Politics1893–1976

#war

"All of us have masculine and feminine qualities—some of this is genetic, and some of it comes from the profound influence of the parent of the opposite sex. But in the need to present a consistent ide…"

— Robert Greene (American author)

Literature1959–1978

#mind