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" It may have struck some readers as an omission, that in a work on civilization insisting so strenuously on a theory of development or evolution, mention should scarcely have been made of Mr. Darwin and Mr. Herbert Spencer, whose influence on the whole... "
Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy ... - Page v
by Edward Burnett Tylor - 1920 - 488 pages
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Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology ..., Volume 1

Edward Burnett Tylor - Animism - 1903 - 536 pages
...correct or strengthen various points, I will only mention by name Professor Felix Liebrecht, of Liege, Mr. Clements R. Markham, Professor Calderwood, Mr....minute evidence, so that readers may have actually before them the means of judging the theory put forward, has been justified by the reception of the...
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Race, Culture, and Evolution: Essays in the History of Anthropology

George W. Stocking - Social Science - 1982 - 409 pages
...contemporary importance entitles them to "formal recognition," but goes on to say that his own work has been "arranged on its own lines, coming scarcely into contact...the previous works of these eminent philosophers." The broader context of this passage confirms this reading. Opler fails to note the quite relevant fact...
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Cultural Selection

A. Fog - History - 1999 - 332 pages
...insisting so strenuously on a theory of development or evolution, mention should scarcely have been made or Mr. Darwin and Mr. Herbert Spencer, whose influence...the previous works of these eminent philosophers." (Tylor 1873). This ambiguity has led to disagreement among historians of ideas about Tylor's relationship...
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Kunst und Religion: Studien zur Kultursoziologie und Kulturgeschichte

Richard Faber, Volkhard Krech - Art and religion - 1999 - 314 pages
...beiden Autoren begründet er allerdings mit der Eigenständigkeit seiner Arbeit, „arranged on ist own lines, coming scarcely into contact of detail...the previous works of these eminent philosophers" (Primitive Culture, VII). gnized by our most familiar knowledge".36 Der technische Fortschritt etwa...
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Herbert Spencer: Critical Assessments, Volume 2

John Offer - Philosophy - 2000 - 696 pages
...insisting so strenuously on a theory of development or evolution, mention should scarcely have been made to Mr. Darwin and Mr. Herbert Spencer, whose influence...contact of detail with the previous works of these philosophers.215 Surprisingly, the two men had virtually no personal contact. In September of 1874...
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Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 105, no. 2, 1961)

118 pages
...were devoted to the exposition of survivals and 00 In the preface to Primitive culture Tylor wrote: "It may have struck some readers as an omission, that...the previous works of these eminent philosophers." 67 See Robert H. Lowie, The history of ethnological theory, 12, New York, Rinehart, 1937. their place...
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