 In his 1871 book "Primitive Culture", Tylor characterized magic as beliefs based on "the error of mistaking ideal analogy for real analogy".In Tylor's view, "primitive man, having come to associate in thought those things which he found by experience to be connected in fact, proceeded erroneously to invert this action, and to conclude that association in thought must involve similar connection in reality.He thus attempted to discover, to foretell, and to cause events by means of processes which we can now see to have only an ideal significance".