巫术并非源于对普遍力量的抽象概念，也不是神话观念的结果。它是人类在面对危险时感到无助的具体情境的产物。

The first fruit of this imagination - and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it - is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

——赫尔曼·梅尔维尔

J'ai tendu des cordes de clocher à clocher; des guirlandes de fenêtre à fenêtre; des chaînes d'or d'étoile à étoile, et je danse.

The spirit is the life that itself cuts through life.

所以，在收成好的年头，百姓就仁义善良；遇到荒年，那么百姓也会吝啬而凶恶。