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Excerpt from The Medicine Man: A Sociological Study of the Character and Evolution of Shamanism
In this practice the adequacy Of the theory was always challenged by and tested on the actual conditions of living. However strongly supported by tradition and by what we call superstition, the theory could not indefinitely stand if it involved maladjustment to these conditions; and even if adjustment had been, for the moment, secured, it presently turned, with the inevitable change of the life.
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