Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 1H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page vii
... theory of development or evolution , mention should scarcely have been made of Mr. Darwin and Mr. Herbert Spencer , whose influence on the whole course of modern thought on such subjects should not be left without formal recognition ...
... theory of development or evolution , mention should scarcely have been made of Mr. Darwin and Mr. Herbert Spencer , whose influence on the whole course of modern thought on such subjects should not be left without formal recognition ...
Page viii
... theory put forward , has been justified by the reception of the book , even in circles to whose views many of its arguments are strongly adverse , and that in matters of the first importance . Writers of most various philosophical and ...
... theory put forward , has been justified by the reception of the book , even in circles to whose views many of its arguments are strongly adverse , and that in matters of the first importance . Writers of most various philosophical and ...
Page ix
... theory -Degeneration - theory - Development - theory includes both , the one as primary , the other as secondary - Historical and tradi- tional evidence not available as to low stages of culture - Histo- rical evidence as to principles ...
... theory -Degeneration - theory - Development - theory includes both , the one as primary , the other as secondary - Historical and tradi- tional evidence not available as to low stages of culture - Histo- rical evidence as to principles ...
Page xii
... theory of exit of dreamer's or seer's own soul ; theory of visits received by them from other souls - Ghost - Soul seen in Apparitions - Wraiths and Doubles- Soul has form of Body ; suffers mutilation with it - Voice of Ghost - Soul ...
... theory of exit of dreamer's or seer's own soul ; theory of visits received by them from other souls - Ghost - Soul seen in Apparitions - Wraiths and Doubles- Soul has form of Body ; suffers mutilation with it - Voice of Ghost - Soul ...
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... theory of the course of events . The philosophy of history at large , explaining the past and predicting the future phe- nomena of man's life in the world by reference to general laws , is in fact a subject with which , in the present ...
... theory of the course of events . The philosophy of history at large , explaining the past and predicting the future phe- nomena of man's life in the world by reference to general laws , is in fact a subject with which , in the present ...
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