Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion Language, Art, and Custom |
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... centuries , we may draw a picture where there shall be scarce a hand's breadth difference between an English ploughman and a negro of Central Africa . These pages will be so crowded with evidence of such correspondence among man- kind ...
... centuries , we may draw a picture where there shall be scarce a hand's breadth difference between an English ploughman and a negro of Central Africa . These pages will be so crowded with evidence of such correspondence among man- kind ...
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... century before B , and B appears never to have heard of A. How distant are the countries , how wide apart the dates , how different the creeds and characters of the observers , in the catalogue of facts of civilization , needs no ...
... century before B , and B appears never to have heard of A. How distant are the countries , how wide apart the dates , how different the creeds and characters of the observers , in the catalogue of facts of civilization , needs no ...
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... century behind her times , but she is a case of survival . Such examples often lead us back to the habits of hundreds and even thousands of years ago . The ordeal of the Key and Bible , still in use , is a survival ; the Midsummer ...
... century behind her times , but she is a case of survival . Such examples often lead us back to the habits of hundreds and even thousands of years ago . The ordeal of the Key and Bible , still in use , is a survival ; the Midsummer ...
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... centuries on evidence derived from the lower forms of life , deeming the structure of mere invertebrate creatures matter unworthy of his philosophic study . Not merely as a matter of curious research , but as an im- portant practical ...
... centuries on evidence derived from the lower forms of life , deeming the structure of mere invertebrate creatures matter unworthy of his philosophic study . Not merely as a matter of curious research , but as an im- portant practical ...
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... centuries in late European colonies . The relation of the sexes among many savage tribes is more healthy than among the richer classes of the Mohammedan world . As a supreme authority of govern- ment , the savage councils of chiefs and ...
... centuries in late European colonies . The relation of the sexes among many savage tribes is more healthy than among the richer classes of the Mohammedan world . As a supreme authority of govern- ment , the savage councils of chiefs and ...
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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