Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages, for they are not as far removed from the understanding of spiritual matter as a twentieth-century Englishman. His explanations of primitive practices are much cruder than the meaning of these practices themselves.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages, for they are not as far removed from the understanding of spiritual matter as a twentieth-century Englishman. His explanations of primitive practices are much cruder than the meaning of these practices themselves." in the context of "Ludwig Wittgenstein, in Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951 (1993), edited by James Carl Klagge and Alfred Nordmann; Ch. 7 : Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough, p. 131" to mean that wisdom is timeless.