"Fetishism" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... explanations of science, are those which refer to the more recondite cases of natural causation; for here it is that methodical investigation is longest in discovering the natural causes. Thus it is only by degrees that fetishism is superseded by what now appears a common-sense interpretation of physical phenomena; that exorcism gives place to medicine; alchemy to chemistry; astrology to astronomy; and so forth. Everywhere the miraculous ...
— Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) • George John Romanes |
