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... feeling had been awakened in the mind of its owner . This higher feeling was roused by the belief that men live on after they are dead . For his children the primitive Aryan still continued after death to be the lord of his own house ...
... feeling had been awakened in the mind of its owner . This higher feeling was roused by the belief that men live on after they are dead . For his children the primitive Aryan still continued after death to be the lord of his own house ...
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... feeling underlies the Greek story of Prokris , the child of the dew ( Hersê ) slain by the spear ( the solar ray ) of him whom she loves , far down in the thicket where the last drop flashes as the sun rises high in the heaven . In such ...
... feeling underlies the Greek story of Prokris , the child of the dew ( Hersê ) slain by the spear ( the solar ray ) of him whom she loves , far down in the thicket where the last drop flashes as the sun rises high in the heaven . In such ...
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... feeling of kinship had sprung up among the tribes which were in the habit of calling themselves Greeks , or rather Hellenes . Between them there was first the bond of a common language ; but this connexion was acknowledged , necessarily ...
... feeling of kinship had sprung up among the tribes which were in the habit of calling themselves Greeks , or rather Hellenes . Between them there was first the bond of a common language ; but this connexion was acknowledged , necessarily ...
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... feeling of nationality , which , however , was never allowed to intrude into the region of politics , was sustained and strengthened , as we have seen , by a common religion . The pri- mitive hearth and altar had been from the first the ...
... feeling of nationality , which , however , was never allowed to intrude into the region of politics , was sustained and strengthened , as we have seen , by a common religion . The pri- mitive hearth and altar had been from the first the ...
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... feeling of se- curity on the part of the rulers . We find accordingly that the Spar- tan government looked with constant anxiety to the classes which itregarded with an instinctive dread . The ephors could put Perioi- koi to death ...
... feeling of se- curity on the part of the rulers . We find accordingly that the Spar- tan government looked with constant anxiety to the classes which itregarded with an instinctive dread . The ephors could put Perioi- koi to death ...
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