Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 1H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... standing - ground , and travel on it so far as it will bear us . It is on this same basis that physical science pursues , with ever - increasing success , its quest of laws of nature . Nor need this restriction hamper the scientific ...
... standing - ground , and travel on it so far as it will bear us . It is on this same basis that physical science pursues , with ever - increasing success , its quest of laws of nature . Nor need this restriction hamper the scientific ...
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... standing all that has been written to make the world acquainted with the lower theologies , the popular ideas of their place in history and their relation to the faiths of higher nations are still of the mediæval type . It is wonder ...
... standing all that has been written to make the world acquainted with the lower theologies , the popular ideas of their place in history and their relation to the faiths of higher nations are still of the mediæval type . It is wonder ...
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... civilization . As one conspicuous instance of what all history stands to prove , if we study the early ages of Christianity , we may see men with minds per- vaded by the new religion of duty , holiness , 28 THE DEVELOPMENT OF CULTURE .
... civilization . As one conspicuous instance of what all history stands to prove , if we study the early ages of Christianity , we may see men with minds per- vaded by the new religion of duty , holiness , 28 THE DEVELOPMENT OF CULTURE .
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... stands between . It might , perhaps , seem practicable to compare the whole average of the civilization of two peoples , or of the same people in different ages , by reckoning each , item by item , to a sort of sum - total , and ...
... stands between . It might , perhaps , seem practicable to compare the whole average of the civilization of two peoples , or of the same people in different ages , by reckoning each , item by item , to a sort of sum - total , and ...
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... stands directly inter- mediate between animal and civilized life ; if along different lines , then savagery and civilization may be considered as at least indirectly connected through their common origin . The method and evidence here ...
... stands directly inter- mediate between animal and civilized life ; if along different lines , then savagery and civilization may be considered as at least indirectly connected through their common origin . The method and evidence here ...
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