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NO linguist would think of picking words from a variety of languages none of which he had studied as a whole, and on these pickings base a theory of language. Every linguist knows that structure and function are essential to an understanding of speech. What is impossible in language is still possible in the study of customs and beliefs.
The Fear of the Dead in Primitive Religion
By Sir James George Frazer. Vol. 3. Pp. x + 323. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1936.) 10s. 6d. net.
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HOCART, A. The Fear of the Dead in Primitive Religion. Nature 137, 1010–1011 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/1371010a0
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