Primitive Culture, Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Art, & Custom, Volume 2 |
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... traced upward from the lower levels of cul- ture 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 to ...
... traced upward from the lower levels of cul- ture 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 to ...
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... 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 , a sustaining hope through ...
... 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 , a sustaining hope through ...
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... 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 . In Africa , again ...
... 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 . In Africa , again ...
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... 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 mind into its ...
... 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 mind into its ...
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... traced onward from the lower to the higher culture . This is the custom of Feasts of the Dead . Among the funeral offerings described in the last chapter of which the purpose more or less distinctly appears to be that the departed soul ...
... traced onward from the lower to the higher culture . This is the custom of Feasts of the Dead . Among the funeral offerings described in the last chapter of which the purpose more or less distinctly appears to be that the departed soul ...
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