Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion Language, Art, and Custom |
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... carry on the investigation of Culture into other branches of thought and 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 ...
... carry on the investigation of Culture into other branches of thought and 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 ...
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... carry out , in a large sense , the poet's injunction to ' Ac- count for moral as for natural things . ' To many educated minds there seems something presumptuous and repulsive in the view that the history of mankind is part and parcel ...
... carry out , in a large sense , the poet's injunction to ' Ac- count for moral as for natural things . ' To many educated minds there seems something presumptuous and repulsive in the view that the history of mankind is part and parcel ...
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... carried horses and wheat to America carried with them the use of the gun and the iron hatchet , while in return the whole world received not only maize , potatoes , and turkeys , but the habit of tobacco - smoking and the sailor's ...
... carried horses and wheat to America carried with them the use of the gun and the iron hatchet , while in return the whole world received not only maize , potatoes , and turkeys , but the habit of tobacco - smoking and the sailor's ...
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... carried on by force of habit into a new state of society different from that in which they had their original home , and they thus remain as proofs and examples of an older condition of cul- ture out of which a newer has been evolved ...
... carried on by force of habit into a new state of society different from that in which they had their original home , and they thus remain as proofs and examples of an older condition of cul- ture out of which a newer has been evolved ...
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... carry their history plainly stamped upon them ; and if the history yet farther behind is less easy to read , we are not to say that because we cannot clearly discern it there is therefore no history there . It is thus even with the ...
... carry their history plainly stamped upon them ; and if the history yet farther behind is less easy to read , we are not to say that because we cannot clearly discern it there is therefore no history there . It is thus even with the ...
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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