Edward Burnett Tylor

“Animism is the groundwork of the Philosophy of Religion, from that of savages up to that of civilized man.”

“The savage intellectual doctrine of souls is not a mere chaotic heap of miscellaneous fancies.”

“Culture or Civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.”

“The science of culture is essentially a reformers' science.”

“It is a harsher thing to take away a man's life than to take away his property.”

“The world is peopled by savages in various stages of civilization.”

“Myth is the history of its authors, not of its subjects; it records the lives, not of superhuman heroes, but of poetic nations.”

“History, so far as it reaches back, shows arts, sciences, and political institutions beginning in ruder states, and becoming in the course of ages more intelligent, more systematic, more perfectly arranged or organized, to answer their purposes.”