Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art and Custom, Volume 2 |
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... if not universal doctrine of low races — Continued existence , rather than Immortality ; second death of Soul - Ghost of Dead remains on earth , especially if corpse unburied ; its attachment to bodily remains - Feasts of the Dead .
... if not universal doctrine of low races — Continued existence , rather than Immortality ; second death of Soul - Ghost of Dead remains on earth , especially if corpse unburied ; its attachment to bodily remains - Feasts of the Dead .
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... its rudimentary and unethical nature among low races ; its development through the course of culture - Good and Evil Deity — Doctrine of Divine Supremacy , distinct from , while tending towards , the doctrine of Monotheism - Idea of ...
... its rudimentary and unethical nature among low races ; its development through the course of culture - Good and Evil Deity — Doctrine of Divine Supremacy , distinct from , while tending towards , the doctrine of Monotheism - Idea of ...
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The evidence that the lower races believe the figures of the dead seen in dreams and visions to be their surviving souls , not only goes far to account for the comparative universality of their belief in the continued existence of the ...
The evidence that the lower races believe the figures of the dead seen in dreams and visions to be their surviving souls , not only goes far to account for the comparative universality of their belief in the continued existence of the ...
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Passing onward through change after change in the condition of the human race , modified and renewed in its long ethnic course , this great belief may be traced from its crude and primitive manifestations among savage races to its ...
Passing onward through change after change in the condition of the human race , modified and renewed in its long ethnic course , this great belief may be traced from its crude and primitive manifestations among savage races to its ...
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160 , & c . , also Papuas and other races . -ng Eed che ch he nat 1 & ted oul. 3 Burton , ' W. & W. fr . W. Afr . p . 376 . 4 Krapf , ` E. Afr . p . 201. ' 5 J. L. Wilson , ' W. Afr . ' p . 210 ; see also R. Clarke , “ Sierra Leone ...
160 , & c . , also Papuas and other races . -ng Eed che ch he nat 1 & ted oul. 3 Burton , ' W. & W. fr . W. Afr . p . 376 . 4 Krapf , ` E. Afr . p . 201. ' 5 J. L. Wilson , ' W. Afr . ' p . 210 ; see also R. Clarke , “ Sierra Leone ...
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