Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 1H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... ancient habits is only one part of the transition from old into new and changing times . The serious business of ancient society may be seen to sink into the sport of later generations , and its serious belief to linger on in nursery ...
... ancient habits is only one part of the transition from old into new and changing times . The serious business of ancient society may be seen to sink into the sport of later generations , and its serious belief to linger on in nursery ...
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... Ancient Law , ' gives a perfect instance . In all the literature which enshrines the pretended philosophy of law , he remarks , there is nothing more curious than the pages of elaborate sophistry in which Blackstone attempts to explain ...
... Ancient Law , ' gives a perfect instance . In all the literature which enshrines the pretended philosophy of law , he remarks , there is nothing more curious than the pages of elaborate sophistry in which Blackstone attempts to explain ...
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... ancient Etruscan and the modern Chinese in delicacy of goldsmith's work and ivory carving , nor reach the classic Greek level of oratory and sculpture , may yet claim for himself a general condition above any of these races . But there ...
... ancient Etruscan and the modern Chinese in delicacy of goldsmith's work and ivory carving , nor reach the classic Greek level of oratory and sculpture , may yet claim for himself a general condition above any of these races . But there ...
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... ancient human race at large , are bound by such examples to consider the rude life of primæval man under favourable conditions to have been , in its measure , a good and happy life . On the other hand , the pictures drawn by some ...
... ancient human race at large , are bound by such examples to consider the rude life of primæval man under favourable conditions to have been , in its measure , a good and happy life . On the other hand , the pictures drawn by some ...
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... ancient and modern navigators , and the domestic history , or tradition , of the most enlightened nations , represent the human savage naked both in mind and body , and destitute of laws , of arts , of ideas , and almost of language ...
... ancient and modern navigators , and the domestic history , or tradition , of the most enlightened nations , represent the human savage naked both in mind and body , and destitute of laws , of arts , of ideas , and almost of language ...
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Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology ..., Volume 1 Edward Burnett Tylor No preview available - 1873 |
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