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ADDRESS TO SIR JAMES GEORGE FRAZERONTHE OCCASION OF THE FOUNDA- TION, IN HIS HONOUR, OF THE FRAZER LECTURESHIP IN SOCIAL NTH ROPOLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITIES OF OXFORD, CAMBRIDGE, GLASGOW AND LIVERPOOL

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THE LIBRARY

OF

THE UNIVERSITY

OF CALIFORNIA

LOS ANGELES

ADDRESS

TO

Sir yames Qeorge Frazer^ LL.D., D.C.L., Litt.D.,

on the occasion of the foundation,

in his honour,

of the

FRAZER LECTURESHIP

in Social Anthropology

DDRESS to Sir James Qeorge Frazer^ LL.D.,D.C.L.,Litt.D., on the occasion of the foundation, in his honour, of the FRAZER LECTURESHIP in Social Anthropology in the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Glasgow, and Liverpool.

ANNO DOMINI MCMXXI

T

H E friends and admirers who have united to found in your honour an annual lectureship in Social Anthropology, a science requiring no such link to connect it with your name, are not alto- gether content to set up their monument and withdraw in silence. They feel, and they hope that you will un- derstand, the wish to approach more nearly an author whose works have bound to him in familiarity and af- fection even those to whom he is not per sonally known , and to indulge, by this short address, an emotion war- mer than mere intellectual gratitude.

The Golden Bough, compared by Virgil to the mistletoe but now revealing some affinity to the ban- yan, has not only waxed a great tree but has spread to a spacious and hospitable forest, whose king receives homage in many tongues from a multitude resorting thither for its fruit or timber or refreshing shade. There they find learning mated with literature, labour dis- guised in ease, and a museum of dark and uncouth superstitions invested with the charm of a truly sympa- thetic magic. There you have gathered together, for the admonition of a proud and oblivious race, the scat- tered and fading relics of its foolish childhood,whether withdrawn from our view among savage folk and in distant countries, or lying unnoticed at our doors. The forgotten milestones of the road which man has travelled, the mazes and blind alleys of his appointed

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progress through time, are illuminated by your art and genius, and the strangest of remote and ancient things are brought near to the minds and hearts of yo ur contemporaries.

They return you thanks for all that they have re- ceived at your hands, and they wish you years of life and continuance of strength to crovv^n with new sheaves that rich and various harvest of discoveries which has already rewarded your untiring industry and your single-hearted quest of truth.

My Friends and Fellow Students: —

1AM deeply sensible of the honour you have done me by founding in my name a Lectureship of Social Anthropology at four great Universities. Such an honour is usually reserved till the world can judgemore fiillyand impartially of a man's work than it is possible to do in his lifetime. I can only hope that, if posterity should concern itself with my writings, it will not reverse the verdict which you have passed upon them. In any case you have erected a monument which will no doubt survive him whom you desire to commemorate, and will carry on his work when he himself has long been mingled with the common dust. It is my earnest wish that the lectureship should be used solely for the disinterested pursuit of truth, and not for the dissemination and propagation of any theories or opinions of mine. As you know, I have never sought to formulate a system or to found a school, being too conscious of the narrow limits of my know- ledge and abilities to attempt anything so ambitious. I have been content to investigate a few problems in the history of man; but I am well aware, and I have en- deavoured to keep my readers constantly aware, of the extreme uncertainty of all the solutions which I have ventured to offer of these problems, always remembering that the study of man's mental evolution.

like the study of the physical universe in which he ap- pears to exist as an insignificant particle, is still only in its inception,and that the views which we of the present day take of that evolution, as of that universe, are necessarily but temporary and provisional, destined with the progress of knowledge to be superseded by truer and more comprehensive views in the future. To that progress I trust that the lectureship which you have founded may in some measure contribute. At the least, it will be a monument of your generosity, if not of my fame: it will serve to show to those who come after us that in an age when the world was torn into hostile camps and exhausted by internecine conflict, scholars could still meet on common ground, above the clash of arms, in the serene air and untroubled light where truth is sought by her votaries. Whatever else comes of it, the approbation of so many of my contemporaries will act as a spur to my industry: it will encourage me to labour yet a while for the ad- vancement of knowledge, that so I may the better deserve the honour which you have conferred upon

me.

I BRICK COURT, TEMPLE, LONDON.

30 APRIL I92I.

y. G. Frazer,

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