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IT has been rather the fashion of recent years to make too light of what is known as the comparative method in anthropology, used with such effect by Sir Edward Tylor and perfected by Sir James Frazer. So much of the work Frazer has done in that field is now taken for granted, that we are perhaps too prone to forget that but for the comparative work done by him, much of the intensive investigation into particular areas which is now possible would scarcely have begun to take place. In the present lecture, a hypothesis is put forward in regard to certain conceptions on which Sir James has had much to tell us-conceptions of life.
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A Primitive Philosophy of Life*. Nature 142, 1085–1086 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/1421085b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1421085b0