Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion Language, Art, and Custom |
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... ancient Swiss lake - dweller may be set beside the medieval Aztec , and the Ojibwa of North America beside the Zulu of South Africa . As Dr. Johnson contemptuously said when he had read about Patagonians and South Sea Islanders in ...
... ancient Swiss lake - dweller may be set beside the medieval Aztec , and the Ojibwa of North America beside the Zulu of South Africa . As Dr. Johnson contemptuously said when he had read about Patagonians and South Sea Islanders in ...
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... ancient habits is only one part of the transition from old into new and changing times . The serious business of ancient society may be seen to sink into the sport of later generations , and its serious belief to linger on in nursery ...
... ancient habits is only one part of the transition from old into new and changing times . The serious business of ancient society may be seen to sink into the sport of later generations , and its serious belief to linger on in nursery ...
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... ancient and noble phases of man's religious consciousness ; nor , because the religions of savage tribes may be rude and primitive compared with the great Asiatic systems , do they lie too low for interest and even for respect . The ...
... ancient and noble phases of man's religious consciousness ; nor , because the religions of savage tribes may be rude and primitive compared with the great Asiatic systems , do they lie too low for interest and even for respect . The ...
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... ancient Etruscan and the modern Chinese in delicacy of goldsmith's work and ivory carving , nor reach the classic Greek level of oratory and sculpture , may yet claim for himself a general condition above any of these races . But there ...
... ancient Etruscan and the modern Chinese in delicacy of goldsmith's work and ivory carving , nor reach the classic Greek level of oratory and sculpture , may yet claim for himself a general condition above any of these races . But there ...
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... ancient human race at large , are bound by such examples to consider the rude life of primæval man under favourable conditions to have been , in its measure , a good and happy life . On the other hand , the pictures drawn by some ...
... ancient human race at large , are bound by such examples to consider the rude life of primæval man under favourable conditions to have been , in its measure , a good and happy life . On the other hand , the pictures drawn by some ...
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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