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IN the symposium on ritual held by Section H (Anthropology) at Cambridge on August 23, several points of interest emerged. All the speakers agreed in rejecting the shallow view, mentioned, only to refute it, by Mr. A. M. Hocart, that ritual is primarily a matter of the emotions. On the contrary, it is likely to be disorganized and made degenerate by the presence of too much emotion, although the utter absence of such a motive force may render it, like every other human activity, a dead and mechanical thing no longer of significance.
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British Association Discussions: Ritual. Nature 142, 511–512 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142511a0
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