Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 1H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... reason . " Nor , again , in studying the structure and habits of plants and animals , or in investigating the lower ... reasons of this state of the popular judgment are not far to seek . There are many who would willingly accept a ...
... reason . " Nor , again , in studying the structure and habits of plants and animals , or in investigating the lower ... reasons of this state of the popular judgment are not far to seek . There are many who would willingly accept a ...
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... reason for everything in life , and that where events look unaccountable , the rule is to wait and watch in hope that the key to the problem may some day be found . This man's observation may have been as narrow as his in- ferences are ...
... reason for everything in life , and that where events look unaccountable , the rule is to wait and watch in hope that the key to the problem may some day be found . This man's observation may have been as narrow as his in- ferences are ...
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... reason upon relics of prehistoric races of whose very names and languages we are hopelessly ignorant . Now these may seem at the first glance sadly indefinite and unpromising materials for a scientific enquiry . But in fact they are ...
... reason upon relics of prehistoric races of whose very names and languages we are hopelessly ignorant . Now these may seem at the first glance sadly indefinite and unpromising materials for a scientific enquiry . But in fact they are ...
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... to the Norse Tales , so reasonably traces its origin . To ingenious attempts at explaining by the light of reason things which want the light of history to show their meaning , much of 0 2 THE SCIENCE OF CULTURE . 19.
... to the Norse Tales , so reasonably traces its origin . To ingenious attempts at explaining by the light of reason things which want the light of history to show their meaning , much of 0 2 THE SCIENCE OF CULTURE . 19.
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... reason , and found it in the argument that kinship through both parents ought to prevail over even a nearer degree of kinship through but one parent . Such are the risks that philosophers run in detaching any phenomenon of civilization ...
... reason , and found it in the argument that kinship through both parents ought to prevail over even a nearer degree of kinship through but one parent . Such are the risks that philosophers run in detaching any phenomenon of civilization ...
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