The Golden Bough共40.8万字全集最新列表_全本免费阅读_Sir James George Frazer

Great

Mother,

with its

curious

blending

of crude

savagery

with

spiritual

aspirations,

was only

one of a

multitude

of similar

Oriental

faiths

which in

the later

days of

paganism

spread

over the

Roman

Empire,

and by

saturating

the

European

peoples

with alien

ideals of

life

gradually

undermined

the whole

fabric of

ancient

civilisation.

Greek and

Roman

society

was built

on the

conception

of the

subordination

of the

individual

to the

community,