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Here let us once more call to mind the consideration which cannot be too strongly put forward , that the doctrine of a Future Life as held by the lower races is the all but necessary outcome of savage Animism . The evidence that the ...
Here let us once more call to mind the consideration which cannot be too strongly put forward , that the doctrine of a Future Life as held by the lower races is the all but necessary outcome of savage Animism . The evidence that the ...
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The ultimate destiny of the more glorified being is the Sun ; the pure spirits who form its mass of burning gases , pour out germs and life to start the course of planetary existence . ( Note to 2nd edition . ) evidence for his ...
The ultimate destiny of the more glorified being is the Sun ; the pure spirits who form its mass of burning gases , pour out germs and life to start the course of planetary existence . ( Note to 2nd edition . ) evidence for his ...
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evidence for his continuity of culture . What , we may well ask , was the original cause and motive of the doctrine of transmigration ? Something may be said in answer , though not at all enough for full explanation .
evidence for his continuity of culture . What , we may well ask , was the original cause and motive of the doctrine of transmigration ? Something may be said in answer , though not at all enough for full explanation .
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Savage descriptions of the next world are often such absolute copies of this , that it is scarcely possible to say whether the dead are or are not thought of as having bodies like the living ; and a few pieces of evidence of this class ...
Savage descriptions of the next world are often such absolute copies of this , that it is scarcely possible to say whether the dead are or are not thought of as having bodies like the living ; and a few pieces of evidence of this class ...
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4 Knowing so thoroughly as we now do the theology of the Zulus , whose ghosts not only survive in the 1 6 6 Aryan evidence in ' Rig - Veda , ' x . 14 , 8 ; xi . 1 , 8 ; Manu , xii . 16-22 ; Max Müller , ' Todtenbestattung , ' pp . xii ...
4 Knowing so thoroughly as we now do the theology of the Zulus , whose ghosts not only survive in the 1 6 6 Aryan evidence in ' Rig - Veda , ' x . 14 , 8 ; xi . 1 , 8 ; Manu , xii . 16-22 ; Max Müller , ' Todtenbestattung , ' pp . xii ...
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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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