Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion Language, Art, and Custom |
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Page v
... belief , art and custom . During the past six years I have taken occasion to bring tentatively before the public some of the principal points of new evidence and argument here advanced . The doctrine of survival in culture , the bearing ...
... belief , art and custom . During the past six years I have taken occasion to bring tentatively before the public some of the principal points of new evidence and argument here advanced . The doctrine of survival in culture , the bearing ...
Page viii
... belief that the English mind , not readily swayed by rhetoric , moves freely under the pressure of facts . September , 1873 . E. B. T. PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION . IN this edition , while I have not found it needful to alter the ...
... belief that the English mind , not readily swayed by rhetoric , moves freely under the pressure of facts . September , 1873 . E. B. T. PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION . IN this edition , while I have not found it needful to alter the ...
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... belief , art , morals , law , custom , and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society . The condition of culture among the various societies of mankind , in so far as it is capable of being investigated on ...
... belief , art , morals , law , custom , and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society . The condition of culture among the various societies of mankind , in so far as it is capable of being investigated on ...
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... beliefs , & c . , of a savage tribe be treated as evidence where it depends on the testimony of some traveller or missionary , who may be a superficial observer , more or less ignorant of the native language , a careless retailer of ...
... beliefs , & c . , of a savage tribe be treated as evidence where it depends on the testimony of some traveller or missionary , who may be a superficial observer , more or less ignorant of the native language , a careless retailer of ...
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... beliefs sound , and the history authentic . This may seem at the first glance a truism , but , in fact , it is the denial of a fallacy which deeply affects the minds of all but a small critical minority of mankind . Popularly , what ...
... beliefs sound , and the history authentic . This may seem at the first glance a truism , but , in fact , it is the denial of a fallacy which deeply affects the minds of all but a small critical minority of mankind . Popularly , what ...
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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