Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art and Custom, Volume 2 |
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... whether of savage or civilized theology , in narratives of visits to the Regions of Souls — Localization of the Future Life -- Distant earthly region : Earthly Paradise , Isles of the Blest - Subterranean Hades or Sheol -Sun ...
... whether of savage or civilized theology , in narratives of visits to the Regions of Souls — Localization of the Future Life -- Distant earthly region : Earthly Paradise , Isles of the Blest - Subterranean Hades or Sheol -Sun ...
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... through barbaric to civilized faiths - Transition of Animism in the History of Religion ; its earlier and later stages as a Philosophy of the Universe ; its later stages as the principle of a Moral Institution 304 CHAPTER XVIII .
... through barbaric to civilized faiths - Transition of Animism in the History of Religion ; its earlier and later stages as a Philosophy of the Universe ; its later stages as the principle of a Moral Institution 304 CHAPTER XVIII .
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This comes more clearly into view among the more civilized races who have worked out the idea of transmigration into ethical schemes of retribution , where the appropriateness of the creatures chosen is almost as manifest to the modern ...
This comes more clearly into view among the more civilized races who have worked out the idea of transmigration into ethical schemes of retribution , where the appropriateness of the creatures chosen is almost as manifest to the modern ...
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Passing from these metaphysical doctrines of civilized theology , we now take up a series of beliefs higher in practical moment , and more clearly conceived in savage thought . There may well have been , and there may still be ...
Passing from these metaphysical doctrines of civilized theology , we now take up a series of beliefs higher in practical moment , and more clearly conceived in savage thought . There may well have been , and there may still be ...
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In savage as in civilized life , dull and careless natures ignore a world to come as too far off , while sceptical intellects are apt to reject its belief as wanting proof . There are even statements on record of whole classes being ...
In savage as in civilized life , dull and careless natures ignore a world to come as too far off , while sceptical intellects are apt to reject its belief as wanting proof . There are even statements on record of whole classes being ...
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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 | Lyon Public Library |
| Digitized | 14 May 2014 |
| Length | 973 pages |
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