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When studying at Glasgow, Frazer owed much to George Ramsay in classical scholarship, and to John Veitch in philosophy; and to both a literary training and finished style which partly explains the wide popularity of his very learned writings. From Kelvin he derived a conception of natural law, which dominated his anthropological thought. His first contribution to learning, after a revision of Long's “Sallust” (1884), was an encyclopaedic commentary on “Pausanias”, for which he had prepared himself by diligent travel in Greece, and intimate acquaintance with the by-ways of Greek myth and cult. This appeared in six volumes in 1898; Frazer was never brief, and he recurred to classical study in five volumes on “The Fasti of Ovid” in 1929.
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MYRES, L. Sir James Fraser, O.M., F.B.A., F.R.S. Nature 147, 635 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147635a0
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