Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 1H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... fancy based , like other thought , on Experience - Mythology affords evidence for studying laws of Imagination - Change in public opinion as to credibility of Myths - Myths rationalized into allegory and history - Ethnological import ...
... fancy based , like other thought , on Experience - Mythology affords evidence for studying laws of Imagination - Change in public opinion as to credibility of Myths - Myths rationalized into allegory and history - Ethnological import ...
Page 18
... fancy at once a development from stage to stage , and a production of uniformity of result from uni- formity of cause . Here , as elsewhere , causeless spontaneity is seen to recede farther and farther into shelter within the dark ...
... fancy at once a development from stage to stage , and a production of uniformity of result from uni- formity of cause . Here , as elsewhere , causeless spontaneity is seen to recede farther and farther into shelter within the dark ...
Page 34
... fancy are rare and spontaneous produc- tions ; and the genius of Homer , or Cicero , or Newton , would excite less admiration , if they could be created by the will of a prince , or the lessons of a preceptor . 2. The benefits of law ...
... fancy are rare and spontaneous produc- tions ; and the genius of Homer , or Cicero , or Newton , would excite less admiration , if they could be created by the will of a prince , or the lessons of a preceptor . 2. The benefits of law ...
Page 69
... fancy ourselves looking on Civilization , as in personal figure she traverses the world ; we see her lingering or resting by the way , and often deviating into paths that bring her toiling back to where she had passed by long ago ; but ...
... fancy ourselves looking on Civilization , as in personal figure she traverses the world ; we see her lingering or resting by the way , and often deviating into paths that bring her toiling back to where she had passed by long ago ; but ...
Page 80
... fancy and little arts of geomancy , such constant winning on one side , such un- reasonable losses on the other , and these strange contin- gencies produce such horrible effects , that it is not im- probable that God hath permitted the ...
... fancy and little arts of geomancy , such constant winning on one side , such un- reasonable losses on the other , and these strange contin- gencies produce such horrible effects , that it is not im- probable that God hath permitted the ...
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Abipones Africa Algic America ancient animals Aryan Asien Aztec barbaric Bastian beasts belief belong body called century Chinook Jargon civilization connexion counting creatures culture dead death described doctrine early earth eclipse English European evidence express fact fancy father Fiji fingers funeral Greek Grimm hand heaven Hine-nui-te-po human hyĉna idea imitative Indian interjectional Islands J. G. Müller Journ Karens Khonds land language legend lower races man's Manabozho mankind Maori Maui Max Müller meaning Mensch metaphor mind modern monster mother myth mythic mythology nations native nature nature-myth night numbers numerals Oestl Ojibwa origin philosophy Plin Polynesia primitive quinary reckoning relation religion remarkable rude saltee Sanskrit savage tribes Schoolcraft seems shape soul sound South America spirit stone story survival tell theory things thought tion Tonga traced tradition Vasilissa the Beautiful vigesimal words Yoruba Zealand Zulu