Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 1H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... become pseudo - history - Geological Myths - Effect of doctrine of Miracles on Mythology - Magnetic Mountain - Myths of relation of Apes to Men by development or degeneration - Ethnological import of myths of Ape - men , Men with tails ...
... become pseudo - history - Geological Myths - Effect of doctrine of Miracles on Mythology - Magnetic Mountain - Myths of relation of Apes to Men by development or degeneration - Ethnological import of myths of Ape - men , Men with tails ...
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... becomes all but irre- sistible to garble it in support of some rough and ready theory of the course of events . The philosophy of history at large , explaining the past and predicting the future phe- nomena of man's life in the world by ...
... becomes all but irre- sistible to garble it in support of some rough and ready theory of the course of events . The philosophy of history at large , explaining the past and predicting the future phe- nomena of man's life in the world by ...
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... becomes difficult or impossible to set down such correspondence to accident or wilful fraud . A story by a bushranger in Australia may , perhaps , be objected to as a mistake or an invention , but did a Methodist minister in Guinea ...
... becomes difficult or impossible to set down such correspondence to accident or wilful fraud . A story by a bushranger in Australia may , perhaps , be objected to as a mistake or an invention , but did a Methodist minister in Guinea ...
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... becomes a vital point of ethnographic research to gain the clearest possible insight into their nature . This importance must justify the detail here devoted to an examination of survival , on the evidence of such games , popular ...
... becomes a vital point of ethnographic research to gain the clearest possible insight into their nature . This importance must justify the detail here devoted to an examination of survival , on the evidence of such games , popular ...
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... becoming very strong that even what seem its most spontaneous and motiveless phenomena will , nevertheless , be shown to come within the range of distinct , cause and effect as certainly as the facts of mechanics . What would be ...
... becoming very strong that even what seem its most spontaneous and motiveless phenomena will , nevertheless , be shown to come within the range of distinct , cause and effect as certainly as the facts of mechanics . What would be ...
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