The Golden Bough1-5118章免费全文_TXT免费下载_Sir James George Frazer

immoral

doctrine

was to

withdraw

the

devotee

more and

more from

the public

service,

to

concentrate

his

thoughts

on his own

spiritual

emotions,

and to

breed in

him a

contempt

for the

present

life which

he

regarded

merely as

a

probation

for a

better and

an

eternal.

The saint

and the

recluse,

disdainful

of earth

and rapt

in

ecstatic

contemplation

of heaven,

became in

popular

opinion

the

highest

ideal of

humanity,