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Excerpt from Magic and Religion Recent years have brought rich additions to the materials for the study of early religion, ritual, magic, and myth.' In proportion to the abundance of information has been the growth of theory and hypothesis. The first essay in this collection, Science and Superstition, ' points out the danger of allowing too ingenious and imaginative hypo theses to lead captive our science. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.