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THIS IS BEGINNING TO GET EMBARRASSING
One imagines that if Peter ever had to read Durkheim in university and came across this particular passage, he'd get lost in thought a little bit, maybe chew the end of his pen, and he'd write Edmund a ponderous letter.
"[T]he religious life and the profane life cannot coexist in the same unit of time. It is necessary to assign determined days or periods to the first, from which all profane occupations are excluded. ... There is no religion, and, consequently, no society which has not known and practiced this division of time into two distinct parts, alternating with one another according to a law varying with the peoples and the civilizations. ... Of course, it is almost impossible that the religious life should ever succeed in concentrating itself hermetically in the places and times which are thus attributed to it; it is inevitable that a little of it should filter out. There are always some sacred things outside the sanctuaries ... [b]ut these are sacred things of the second rank and rites of a lesser importance."
-- Emile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
things edmund doesn't know, Peter&Edmund in LWW.
I'm going to bed.
"[T]he religious life and the profane life cannot coexist in the same unit of time. It is necessary to assign determined days or periods to the first, from which all profane occupations are excluded. ... There is no religion, and, consequently, no society which has not known and practiced this division of time into two distinct parts, alternating with one another according to a law varying with the peoples and the civilizations. ... Of course, it is almost impossible that the religious life should ever succeed in concentrating itself hermetically in the places and times which are thus attributed to it; it is inevitable that a little of it should filter out. There are always some sacred things outside the sanctuaries ... [b]ut these are sacred things of the second rank and rites of a lesser importance."
-- Emile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
things edmund doesn't know, Peter&Edmund in LWW.
I'm going to bed.