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Here let us once more call to mind the consideration which cannot be too strongly put forward , that the doctrine of a Future Life as held by the lower races is the all but necessary outcome of savage Animism . The evidence that the ...
Here let us once more call to mind the consideration which cannot be too strongly put forward , that the doctrine of a Future Life as held by the lower races is the all but necessary outcome of savage Animism . The evidence that the ...
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Savage descriptions of the next world are often such absolute copies of this , that it is scarcely possible to say whether the dead are or are not thought of as having bodies like the living ; and a few pieces of evidence of this class ...
Savage descriptions of the next world are often such absolute copies of this , that it is scarcely possible to say whether the dead are or are not thought of as having bodies like the living ; and a few pieces of evidence of this class ...
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4 Knowing so thoroughly as we now do the Aryan evidence in ' Rig Veda , ' x . 14 , 8 ; xi . 1 , 8 ; Manu , xii . 16-22 ; Max Müller , « Todtenbestattung , ' pp . xii . xiv . ; ' Chips , ' vol . i . p . 47 ; Muir in " Journ . As . Soc .
4 Knowing so thoroughly as we now do the Aryan evidence in ' Rig Veda , ' x . 14 , 8 ; xi . 1 , 8 ; Manu , xii . 16-22 ; Max Müller , « Todtenbestattung , ' pp . xii . xiv . ; ' Chips , ' vol . i . p . 47 ; Muir in " Journ . As . Soc .
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Those who listened to her tale firmly believed the reality of her adventures , but it was much regretted that she had not brought back at least one of the huge sweet - potatoes , as evidence of her visit to the land of spirits .
Those who listened to her tale firmly believed the reality of her adventures , but it was much regretted that she had not brought back at least one of the huge sweet - potatoes , as evidence of her visit to the land of spirits .
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A belief ascribed to certain Indians of California may be cited here , though less as a sample of real native doctrine than to illustrate that borrowing of Christian ideas which so often spoils such evidence for ethnological purposes .
A belief ascribed to certain Indians of California may be cited here , though less as a sample of real native doctrine than to illustrate that borrowing of Christian ideas which so often spoils such evidence for ethnological purposes .
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| Title | Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2 Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Sir Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Author | Sir Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | H. Holt, 1877 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Oct 2008 |
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