Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 1H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... known to us as direct history , but so thoroughly is this notion of development at home in our minds , that by means of it we reconstruct lost history without scruple , trusting to general knowledge of the principles of human thought ...
... known to us as direct history , but so thoroughly is this notion of development at home in our minds , that by means of it we reconstruct lost history without scruple , trusting to general knowledge of the principles of human thought ...
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... known Rudimentary as the science of culture still is , the symptoms are 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 ...
... known Rudimentary as the science of culture still is , the symptoms are 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 ...
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... known to history , with the aid of archeological inference from the remains of pre - historic tribes , it seems possible to judge in a rough way of an early general condition of man , which from our point of view is to be regarded as a ...
... known to history , with the aid of archeological inference from the remains of pre - historic tribes , it seems possible to judge in a rough way of an early general condition of man , which from our point of view is to be regarded as a ...
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... known savage tribe would not be improved by judicious civilization , is a proposition which no moralist would dare to make ; while the general tenour of the evidence goes far to justify the view that on the whole the civilized man is ...
... known savage tribe would not be improved by judicious civilization , is a proposition which no moralist would dare to make ; while the general tenour of the evidence goes far to justify the view that on the whole the civilized man is ...
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... known historic course what its pre- historic course may have been , is a theory clearly entitled to precedence as a fundamental principle of ethnographic research . Gibbon , in his ' Roman Empire , ' expresses in a few vigorous ...
... known historic course what its pre- historic course may have been , is a theory clearly entitled to precedence as a fundamental principle of ethnographic research . Gibbon , in his ' Roman Empire , ' expresses in a few vigorous ...
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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 hyæna 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