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D. , F.R.S. • urnett PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD 6 AUTHOR OF RESEARCHES INTO THE EARLY HISTORY OF MANKIND , ' ETC. " Ce n'est pas dans les possibilités , c'est dans l'homme même qu'il faut étudier l'homme : il ...
D. , F.R.S. • urnett PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD 6 AUTHOR OF RESEARCHES INTO THE EARLY HISTORY OF MANKIND , ' ETC. " Ce n'est pas dans les possibilités , c'est dans l'homme même qu'il faut étudier l'homme : il ...
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The doctrine has been current among them since early days of European intercourse , and in accordance with it they habitually regarded the Englishmen as their own deceased kindred , come back to their country from an attachment to it in ...
The doctrine has been current among them since early days of European intercourse , and in accordance with it they habitually regarded the Englishmen as their own deceased kindred , come back to their country from an attachment to it in ...
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Though seemingly not received by the early Aryans , the doctrine of migration was adopted and adapted by Hindu philosophy , and forms an integral part of that great system common to Brahmanism and Buddhism , wherein successive births or ...
Though seemingly not received by the early Aryans , the doctrine of migration was adopted and adapted by Hindu philosophy , and forms an integral part of that great system common to Brahmanism and Buddhism , wherein successive births or ...
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In early Christianity , the conception of bodily resurrection is developed with especial strength and fulness in the Pauline doctrine . For an explicit interpretation of this doctrine , such as commended itself to the minds of later ...
In early Christianity , the conception of bodily resurrection is developed with especial strength and fulness in the Pauline doctrine . For an explicit interpretation of this doctrine , such as commended itself to the minds of later ...
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It is principally the ethereal surviving soul of early culture that has now to be studied in the religions of savages and barbarians and the folk - lore of the civilized world . That this soul should be looked on as surviving beyond ...
It is principally the ethereal surviving soul of early culture that has now to be studied in the religions of savages and barbarians and the folk - lore of the civilized world . That this soul should be looked on as surviving beyond ...
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Page 156 - Mr. Darwin saw two Malay women in Keeling Island who held a wooden spoon dressed in clothes like a doll; this spoon had been carried to the grave of a dead man, and becoming inspired at full moon, in fact lunatic, it danced about convulsively like a table or a hat at a modern spirit-seance.
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| Title | Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art and Custom, Volume 2 Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art and Custom, Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Author | Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | Murray, 1903 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 Mar 2006 |
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