Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art and Custom, Volume 2 |
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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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... this great belief may be traced from its crude and primitive manifestations among savage races to its establishment in the heart of modern religion , where the faith in a future existence forms at once an inducement to goodness ...
... this great belief may be traced from its crude and primitive manifestations among savage races to its establishment in the heart of modern religion , where the faith in a future existence forms at once an inducement to goodness ...
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A similar theory may be traced northward by the Torres Islands to New Caledonia , where the natives thought the white men to be the spirits of the dead who bring sickness , and assigned this as their reason for wishing to kill white men ...
A similar theory may be traced northward by the Torres Islands to New Caledonia , where the natives thought the white men to be the spirits of the dead who bring sickness , and assigned this as their reason for wishing to kill white men ...
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Thus we have traced the theory of metempsychosis in stage after stage of the world's civilization , scattered among the native races of America and Africa , established in the Asiatic nations , especially where elaborated by the Hindu ...
Thus we have traced the theory of metempsychosis in stage after stage of the world's civilization , scattered among the native races of America and Africa , established in the Asiatic nations , especially where elaborated by the Hindu ...
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... at once from the clear conception it gives of the belief in disembodied souls present among the living , and from the distinct line of ethnographic continuity in which it may be traced onward from the lower to the higher culture .
... at once from the clear conception it gives of the belief in disembodied souls present among the living , and from the distinct line of ethnographic continuity in which it may be traced onward from the lower to the higher culture .
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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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