J G Frazer to Howitt 12 Feb 1905

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with all future copies.

You can hardly expect to
learn anything from reviews,
at least reviews written in
England, for there is no one
here who knows your tribes
at first hand, and few even
of those who read about them
seem to understand what
they read. Yet you and
Spencer write plainly enough.
But the human capapcity
for misunderstanding the
plainest statements is
unlimited. Did you see
the gross misrepresentations
of your views (by Lang) in
the review in the Athenaeum?
That paper seems to me
to go from bad to worse.

My paper on the
beginnings of religion in