Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 1H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... express distance and difference -Children's Language - Sound - words as related to Sense - words - Language an original product of the lower Culture • 112 160 200 CHAPTER VII . THE ART OF COUNTING . • Ideas X CONTENTS .
... express distance and difference -Children's Language - Sound - words as related to Sense - words - Language an original product of the lower Culture • 112 160 200 CHAPTER VII . THE ART OF COUNTING . • Ideas X CONTENTS .
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... express the state of a people as to one particular point of culture , as truly as the tabulated numbers of deaths by poison , and of chests of tea imported , express in a diffe- rent way other partial results of the general life of a ...
... express the state of a people as to one particular point of culture , as truly as the tabulated numbers of deaths by poison , and of chests of tea imported , express in a diffe- rent way other partial results of the general life of a ...
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... express hemselves by declaring that they have " a month's mind " > it , can have no conception of the hopeless nonsense they re making of the old term of the " month's mind " which as really the monthly service for a dead man's soul ...
... express hemselves by declaring that they have " a month's mind " > it , can have no conception of the hopeless nonsense they re making of the old term of the " month's mind " which as really the monthly service for a dead man's soul ...
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... express like meanings , then we may reasonably suppose that we are not deluding ourselves in thinking such words highly appro- priate to their purpose . They are words which answer the conditions of original language , conforming as ...
... express like meanings , then we may reasonably suppose that we are not deluding ourselves in thinking such words highly appro- priate to their purpose . They are words which answer the conditions of original language , conforming as ...
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... express pleasure , and so forth . As it is , children learn by early experience that such and such a tone indicates such and such an emotion , and this they make out partly by finding themselves uttering such tones when their feel- ings ...
... express pleasure , and so forth . As it is , children learn by early experience that such and such a tone indicates such and such an emotion , and this they make out partly by finding themselves uttering such tones when their feel- ings ...
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