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The origins of our superstitions are lost in time, and those beliefs which have survived are often relics of ancient cultures and long vanished ways of life. Above all, however, they remain outward expressions of the tensions and anxieties that rend humanity as it struggles down the corridor of life from birth to death. Life, now as in the past, remains an impenetrable mystery with incomprehensible rules, and the vast majority of individuals implicitly accept the exisitence of an external power which in some mysterious way influences their lives and which it is believed can sometimes in an equally inexplicable manner be influenced by the human will. (奈良女子大)
――英文和訳講座 高橋喜昭著 研究社出版
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