Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 1H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... carry on the investigation of Culture into other branches of thought and belief , art and custom . During the past six years , I have taken occasion to bring tentatively before the public some of the principal points of new evidence and ...
... carry on the investigation of Culture into other branches of thought and belief , art and custom . During the past six years , I have taken occasion to bring tentatively before the public some of the principal points of new evidence and ...
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... carry out , in a large sense , the poet's injunction to " Ac- count for moral as for natural things . " To many educated minds there seems something presumptuous and repulsive in the view that the history of mankind is part and parcel ...
... carry out , in a large sense , the poet's injunction to " Ac- count for moral as for natural things . " To many educated minds there seems something presumptuous and repulsive in the view that the history of mankind is part and parcel ...
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... carried horses and wheat to America carried with them the use of the gun and the iron hatchet , while in return the old world received not only maize , potatoes , and turkeys , but the habit of smoking and the sailor's hammock . It is a ...
... carried horses and wheat to America carried with them the use of the gun and the iron hatchet , while in return the old world received not only maize , potatoes , and turkeys , but the habit of smoking and the sailor's hammock . It is a ...
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... carried on by force of habit into a new state of society different from that in which they had their original home , and they thus remain as proofs and examples of an older condition of cul- ture out of which a newer has been evolved ...
... carried on by force of habit into a new state of society different from that in which they had their original home , and they thus remain as proofs and examples of an older condition of cul- ture out of which a newer has been evolved ...
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... carry their history plainly stamped upon them ; and if the history yet farther behind is less easy to read , we are not to say that because we cannot clearly discern it there is therefore no history there . It is thus even with the ...
... carry their history plainly stamped upon them ; and if the history yet farther behind is less easy to read , we are not to say that because we cannot clearly discern it there is therefore no history there . It is thus even with the ...
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