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St Keyne's, Cambridge. Dated 11 May 1911 - [John] Roscoe is giving a series of lectures on the tribes of Central Africa and could repeat the lectures he is giving at Cambridge in Oxford, and gives his postal address to Marett; thanks him for his inaugural lecture ['The Birth of Humility'] and takes issue with Marett's interpretation of Robertson Smith's views of the order in which ritual and dogma appear, stating that he believed that dogma occurred prior to ritual, not the other way around, and adds that R. M. Meyer has ascribed the same belief to Frazer; in a postscript he questions Marett's regard for [William] McDougall as an authority on psychology and says his friend James Ward does not think highly of him.
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Published in Ackerman, Robert, ed. 'Selected Letters of Sir J. G. Frazer'. Oxford: Oxford University Press, [2005].
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- Marett, Robert Ranulph (1866–1943) philosopher and anthropologist (Subject)
- Roscoe, John (1861-1932) clergyman, anthropologist (Subject)
- Smith, William Robertson (1846-1894) theologian and Semitic scholar (Subject)
- Meyer, Richard Moritz (1860-1914) Germanist (Subject)
- McDougall, William (1871–1938) psychologist (Subject)
- Ward, James (1843-1925), philosopher and psychologist (Subject)