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Sacrifice of Substitutes : part given for whole ; inferior life for superior ; effigies -Modern survival of Sacrifice in folklore and religion - Fasting , as a means of producing ecstatic vision ; its course from lower to higher Culture ...
Sacrifice of Substitutes : part given for whole ; inferior life for superior ; effigies -Modern survival of Sacrifice in folklore and religion - Fasting , as a means of producing ecstatic vision ; its course from lower to higher Culture ...
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... Political Philosophy- Language - Mythology - Ethics and Law - Religion - Action of the Science of Culture , as a means of furthering progress and removing hindrance , effective in the course of Civilization 443 PRIMITIVE CULTURE .
... Political Philosophy- Language - Mythology - Ethics and Law - Religion - Action of the Science of Culture , as a means of furthering progress and removing hindrance , effective in the course of Civilization 443 PRIMITIVE CULTURE .
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... the superhuman beings or angels who dwell in the planetary ether , and thence to a still higher state , the secret of whose nature M. Figuier does not endeavour to penetrate , because our means of investigation fail at this point .
... the superhuman beings or angels who dwell in the planetary ether , and thence to a still higher state , the secret of whose nature M. Figuier does not endeavour to penetrate , because our means of investigation fail at this point .
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To the philosophy of the lower races it is by no means necessary that the surviving soul should be provided with a new body , for it seems itself to be of a filmy or vaporous corporeal nature , capable of carrying on an independent ...
To the philosophy of the lower races it is by no means necessary that the surviving soul should be provided with a new body , for it seems itself to be of a filmy or vaporous corporeal nature , capable of carrying on an independent ...
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... may merely mean to say that they are dead . When the East African is asked what becomes of his buried ancestors , the old people , ' he can reply that they are ended , ' yet at the same time he fully admits that their ghosts survive ...
... may merely mean to say that they are dead . When the East African is asked what becomes of his buried ancestors , the old people , ' he can reply that they are ended , ' yet at the same time he fully admits that their ghosts survive ...
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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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