Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion Language, Art, and Custom |
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... African missionary . Thus at all times historians , so far as they have aimed at being more than mere chroniclers , have done their best to show not merely succession , but connexion , among the events upon their record . Moreover ...
... African missionary . Thus at all times historians , so far as they have aimed at being more than mere chroniclers , have done their best to show not merely succession , but connexion , among the events upon their record . Moreover ...
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... Africa . As Dr. Johnson contemptuously said when he had read about Patagonians and South Sea Islanders in Hawkesworth's Voyages , ' one set of savages is like another . ' How true a generalization this really is , any Ethnological ...
... Africa . As Dr. Johnson contemptuously said when he had read about Patagonians and South Sea Islanders in Hawkesworth's Voyages , ' one set of savages is like another . ' How true a generalization this really is , any Ethnological ...
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... Africa . These pages will be so crowded with evidence of such correspondence among man- kind , that there is no need to dwell upon its details here , but it may be used at once to override a problem which would complicate the argument ...
... Africa . These pages will be so crowded with evidence of such correspondence among man- kind , that there is no need to dwell upon its details here , but it may be used at once to override a problem which would complicate the argument ...
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... Africa lead a life below the European standard , but not a savage life . The Gauchos of the South American Pampas , a mixed European and Indian race of equestrian herdsmen , are described as sitting about on ox - skulls , making broth ...
... Africa lead a life below the European standard , but not a savage life . The Gauchos of the South American Pampas , a mixed European and Indian race of equestrian herdsmen , are described as sitting about on ox - skulls , making broth ...
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... Africa , also , a comparatively high barbaric culture , which we especially associate with the old descrip- tions of the kingdom of Monomotapa , seems to have fallen away , not counting the remarkable ruins of buildings of hewn stone ...
... Africa , also , a comparatively high barbaric culture , which we especially associate with the old descrip- tions of the kingdom of Monomotapa , seems to have fallen away , not counting the remarkable ruins of buildings of hewn stone ...
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Abipones Africa ages Amazulu ancient animals animistic appears Archæology Archip Aryan Asien barbaric Bastian beasts belief belong body called century Charlevoix Chinook Jargon civilization connexion creatures culture custom Dayaks dead death described divination doctrine dreams early earth English European evidence express fact fancy father Fiji fingers funeral ghost Greek Grimm hand heaven Hine-nui-te-po Hist human hyæna idea imitative Indian interjectional Islands Journ Karens Khonds language legend living lower races Malay man's mankind Maui Max Müller meaning mediæval Mensch mind modern Moon myth mythic mythology nations native nature nature-myth night numerals Oestl Ojibwa origin philosophy Plin primitive Quichua quinary relation religion remarkable rite rude Sanskrit savage tribes Schoolcraft seems sneeze soul sound spirit stone story survival theory things thought tion Tonga traced Veddas verb vigesimal vowels Waitz words Wuttke Yoruba Zealand Zulu