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Higher Deities of Polytheism - Human characteristics applied to Deity - Lords of Spiritual Hierarchy - Polytheism : its course of development in lower and higher Culture — Principles of its investigation ; classification of Deities ...
Higher Deities of Polytheism - Human characteristics applied to Deity - Lords of Spiritual Hierarchy - Polytheism : its course of development in lower and higher Culture — Principles of its investigation ; classification of Deities ...
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... its primary phases best represented among the lower races , while survivals of these among the higher races mark the transition from savage through barbaric to civilized faiths - Transition of Animism in the History of Religion ...
... its primary phases best represented among the lower races , while survivals of these among the higher races mark the transition from savage through barbaric to civilized faiths - Transition of Animism in the History of Religion ...
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HAVING thus traced upward from the lower levels of culture the opinions of mankind as to the souls , spirits , ghosts , or phantoms , considered to belong to men , to the lower animals , to plants , and to things , we are now prepared ...
HAVING thus traced upward from the lower levels of culture the opinions of mankind as to the souls , spirits , ghosts , or phantoms , considered to belong to men , to the lower animals , to plants , and to things , we are now prepared ...
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The one is the theory of the Transmigration of Souls , which has indeed risen from its lower stages to establish itself among the huge religious communities of Asia , great in history , enormous even in present mass , yet arrested and ...
The one is the theory of the Transmigration of Souls , which has indeed risen from its lower stages to establish itself among the huge religious communities of Asia , great in history , enormous even in present mass , yet arrested and ...
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... thus come back.2 Next , the lower psychology , drawing no definite line of demarcation between souls of men and of beasts , can at least admit without difficulty the transmission of human souls into the bodies of the lower animals .
... thus come back.2 Next , the lower psychology , drawing no definite line of demarcation between souls of men and of beasts , can at least admit without difficulty the transmission of human souls into the bodies of the lower animals .
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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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