Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 1H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page v
... thought and belief , art and custom . During the past six years , I have taken occasion to bring tentatively before the public some of the principal points of new evidence and argument here advanced . The doctrine of survival in culture ...
... thought and belief , art and custom . During the past six years , I have taken occasion to bring tentatively before the public some of the principal points of new evidence and argument here advanced . The doctrine of survival in culture ...
Page vii
... the whole course of modern thought on such subjects should not be left without formal recognition . This absence of particular reference is accounted for by the present work , arranged on its own lines , coming scarcely.
... the whole course of modern thought on such subjects should not be left without formal recognition . This absence of particular reference is accounted for by the present work , arranged on its own lines , coming scarcely.
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... thought , on Experience - Mythology affords evidence for studying laws of Imagination - Change in public opinion as to credibility of Myths - Myths rationalized into allegory and history - Ethnological import and treatment of Myth ...
... thought , on Experience - Mythology affords evidence for studying laws of Imagination - Change in public opinion as to credibility of Myths - Myths rationalized into allegory and history - Ethnological import and treatment of Myth ...
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... thought and language , knowledge and art , a change appears in the prevalent tone of opinion . The world at large is ... thoughts , wills , and actions accord with laws as definite as those which govern the motion of waves , the ...
... thought and language , knowledge and art , a change appears in the prevalent tone of opinion . The world at large is ... thoughts , wills , and actions accord with laws as definite as those which govern the motion of waves , the ...
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... thought and action , and has simply thrown out of account in his own studies of life the whole fabric of motiveless will and uncaused spontaneity . It is assumed here that they should be just so thrown out of account in wider studies ...
... thought and action , and has simply thrown out of account in his own studies of life the whole fabric of motiveless will and uncaused spontaneity . It is assumed here that they should be just so thrown out of account in wider studies ...
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