Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 1H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... examples . The statement of the facts must form the staple of the argument , and the limit of needful detail is only reached when each group so displays its general law , that fresh cases come to range themselves in their proper niches ...
... examples . The statement of the facts must form the staple of the argument , and the limit of needful detail is only reached when each group so displays its general law , that fresh cases come to range themselves in their proper niches ...
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... examples from a list of hundreds , and the ethnographer's business is to classify such details with a view to making out their distribution in geography and history , and the relations which exist among them . What this task is like ...
... examples from a list of hundreds , and the ethnographer's business is to classify such details with a view to making out their distribution in geography and history , and the relations which exist among them . What this task is like ...
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... examples of the kind of development which affects civilization at large . In the history of fire - arms , the clumsy wheel - lock , in which a notched steel wheel was turned by a handle against the flint till a spark caught the priming ...
... examples of the kind of development which affects civilization at large . In the history of fire - arms , the clumsy wheel - lock , in which a notched steel wheel was turned by a handle against the flint till a spark caught the priming ...
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... examples of an older condition of cul- ture out of which a newer has been evolved . Thus , I know an old Somersetshire woman whose hand - loom dates from the time before the introduction of the " flying shuttle , " which new - fangled ...
... examples of an older condition of cul- ture out of which a newer has been evolved . Thus , I know an old Somersetshire woman whose hand - loom dates from the time before the introduction of the " flying shuttle , " which new - fangled ...
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... examples . The educated world of Europe and America practically settles a standard by simply placing its own nations at one end of the social series and savage tribes at the other , arranging the rest of mankind between these limits ...
... examples . The educated world of Europe and America practically settles a standard by simply placing its own nations at one end of the social series and savage tribes at the other , arranging the rest of mankind between these limits ...
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