Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 1H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... things . " To many educated minds there seems something presumptuous and repulsive in the view that the history of mankind is part and parcel of the history of nature , that our thoughts , wills , and actions accord with laws as ...
... things . " To many educated minds there seems something presumptuous and repulsive in the view that the history of mankind is part and parcel of the history of nature , that our thoughts , wills , and actions accord with laws as ...
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... things will nevertheless pass much of his own life in studying the motives which lead to human action , seeking to attain his wishes through them , framing in his mind theories of personal character , reckoning what are likely to be the ...
... things will nevertheless pass much of his own life in studying the motives which lead to human action , seeking to attain his wishes through them , framing in his mind theories of personal character , reckoning what are likely to be the ...
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... things which have altered little in a long course of centuries , we may draw a picture where there shall be scarce a hand's breadth difference between an English ploughman and a negro of Central Africa . These pages will be so crowded ...
... things which have altered little in a long course of centuries , we may draw a picture where there shall be scarce a hand's breadth difference between an English ploughman and a negro of Central Africa . These pages will be so crowded ...
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... things , and their transmission from region to region , have to be studied as the naturalist studies the geography of his botanical and zoological species . Just as certain plants and animals are peculiar to certain districts , so it is ...
... things , and their transmission from region to region , have to be studied as the naturalist studies the geography of his botanical and zoological species . Just as certain plants and animals are peculiar to certain districts , so it is ...
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... story there ? The possibility of intentional or unin- tentional mystification is often barred by such a state of things as that a similar statement is made in two remote lands , by two witnesses , of whom A lived. THE SCIENCE OF CULTURE .
... story there ? The possibility of intentional or unin- tentional mystification is often barred by such a state of things as that a similar statement is made in two remote lands , by two witnesses , of whom A lived. THE SCIENCE OF CULTURE .
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