Vulgar words in The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism (Page 1)
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Led by an old eunuch of dubious habits, a crowd of painted young men marched along the highways with an ass that bore an elaborately adorned image of the goddess.
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Magic, therefore, was a science groping in the dark, and later became "a bastard sister of science," as Frazer puts it.
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But, like astrology, magic was religious in origin, and always remained a bastard sister of religion.