Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion Language, Art, and Custom |
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... come after it . They grasp firmly the Pythagorean doctrine of pervading order in the universal Kosmos . They affirm , with Aristotle , that nature is not full of incoherent episodes , like a bad tragedy . They agree with Leibnitz in ...
... come after it . They grasp firmly the Pythagorean doctrine of pervading order in the universal Kosmos . They affirm , with Aristotle , that nature is not full of incoherent episodes , like a bad tragedy . They agree with Leibnitz in ...
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... Kamchatka to Tierra del Fuego , and from Dahome to Hawaii . Even when it comes to comparing barbarous hordes with civilized nations , the consideration thrusts itself upon our minds , how far item after 6 THE SCIENCE OF CULTURE .
... Kamchatka to Tierra del Fuego , and from Dahome to Hawaii . Even when it comes to comparing barbarous hordes with civilized nations , the consideration thrusts itself upon our minds , how far item after 6 THE SCIENCE OF CULTURE .
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... comes well into view when we notice how far the same causes have produced both at once . In district after district , the same causes which have introduced the cultivated plants and domesti- cated animals of civilization , have brought ...
... comes well into view when we notice how far the same causes have produced both at once . In district after district , the same causes which have introduced the cultivated plants and domesti- cated animals of civilization , have brought ...
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... comes in . If two independent visitors to different countries , say a mediæval Mohammedan in Tartary and a modern Englishman in Dahome , or a Jesuit missionary in Brazil and a Wesleyan in the Fiji Islands , agree in describing some ...
... comes in . If two independent visitors to different countries , say a mediæval Mohammedan in Tartary and a modern Englishman in Dahome , or a Jesuit missionary in Brazil and a Wesleyan in the Fiji Islands , agree in describing some ...
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... come before us ever - reiterated proofs of regular causa- tion producing the phenomena of human life , and of laws of maintenance and diffusion according to which these phe- nomena settle into permanent standard conditions of society ...
... come before us ever - reiterated proofs of regular causa- tion producing the phenomena of human life , and of laws of maintenance and diffusion according to which these phe- nomena settle into permanent standard conditions of society ...
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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