Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2 |
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One of the most remarkable forms which this belief assumes is when dark - skinned races , wanting some reasonable theory to account for the appearance among them of human creatures of a new strange sort , the white men , and struck with ...
One of the most remarkable forms which this belief assumes is when dark - skinned races , wanting some reasonable theory to account for the appearance among them of human creatures of a new strange sort , the white men , and struck with ...
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... but by the inflexible result of cause into effect , wherein the present is ever determined by the past in an unbroken line of causation , is indeed one of the world's most remarkable developments of ethical speculation .
... but by the inflexible result of cause into effect , wherein the present is ever determined by the past in an unbroken line of causation , is indeed one of the world's most remarkable developments of ethical speculation .
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Within the range of Christian influence , the Manichĉans appear as the most remarkable exponents of the metempsychosis . We hear of their ideas of sinners ' souls transmigrating into beasts , the viler according to their crimes ...
Within the range of Christian influence , the Manichĉans appear as the most remarkable exponents of the metempsychosis . We hear of their ideas of sinners ' souls transmigrating into beasts , the viler according to their crimes ...
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For an explicit interpretation of this doctrine , such as commended itself to the minds of later theologians , it is instructive to cite the remarkable passage of Origen , where he speaks of “ corporeal matter , of which matter ...
For an explicit interpretation of this doctrine , such as commended itself to the minds of later theologians , it is instructive to cite the remarkable passage of Origen , where he speaks of “ corporeal matter , of which matter ...
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In the same region of the world , the Kol tribes of Chota Nagpur are remarkable for their pathetic reverence for their dead . When a Ho or Munda has been burned on the funeral pile , collected morsels of his bones are carried in ...
In the same region of the world , the Kol tribes of Chota Nagpur are remarkable for their pathetic reverence for their dead . When a Ho or Munda has been burned on the funeral pile , collected morsels of his bones are carried in ...
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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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