Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion Language, Art, and Custom |
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... actual existence and growth among modern savages and barbarians - Original sources of Myth - Early doctrines of general animation of Nature - Personification of Sun , Moon , and Stars ; Water - spout , Sand - pillar , Rainbow ...
... actual existence and growth among modern savages and barbarians - Original sources of Myth - Early doctrines of general animation of Nature - Personification of Sun , Moon , and Stars ; Water - spout , Sand - pillar , Rainbow ...
Page 27
... actual civilization , as traced by comparing savagery with barbarism , and barbarism with modern edu- cated life . So far as we take into account only material and intellectual culture , this is especially true . Acquaint- ance with the ...
... actual civilization , as traced by comparing savagery with barbarism , and barbarism with modern edu- cated life . So far as we take into account only material and intellectual culture , this is especially true . Acquaint- ance with the ...
Page 32
... actual savagery , barbarism , and civilization . The thesis which I venture to sustain , within limits , is simply this , that the savage state in some measure represents an early condition of mankind , out of which the higher culture ...
... actual savagery , barbarism , and civilization . The thesis which I venture to sustain , within limits , is simply this , that the savage state in some measure represents an early condition of mankind , out of which the higher culture ...
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... an early condition of the human race at large , so far the argument takes the very practicable shape of a discussion turning rather on actual than imaginary states of society . The second hypothesis , PROGRESS AND DEGRADATION . 37.
... an early condition of the human race at large , so far the argument takes the very practicable shape of a discussion turning rather on actual than imaginary states of society . The second hypothesis , PROGRESS AND DEGRADATION . 37.
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... actual experience . This is a development - theory , in which both advance and relapse have their acknowledged places . But so far as history is to be our criterion , progression is primary and degradation secondary ; culture must be ...
... actual experience . This is a development - theory , in which both advance and relapse have their acknowledged places . But so far as history is to be our criterion , progression is primary and degradation secondary ; culture must be ...
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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