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... course of ten years chiefly spent in these researches , it has been my constant task to select the most instructive ethnological facts from the vast mass on record , and by lopping away unnecessary matter to reduce the data on each ...
... course of ten years chiefly spent in these researches , it has been my constant task to select the most instructive ethnological facts from the vast mass on record , and by lopping away unnecessary matter to reduce the data on each ...
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... course of modern thought on such subjects should not be left without formal recognition . This absence of particular reference is accounted for by the present work , arranged on its own lines , coming scarcely into contact of detail ...
... course of modern thought on such subjects should not be left without formal recognition . This absence of particular reference is accounted for by the present work , arranged on its own lines , coming scarcely into contact of detail ...
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... lessons of experience , and in a word the whole course of our rational life is based upon it . ' One event is always the son of another , and we must 6 never forget the parentage , ' was a remark 4 THE SCIENCE OF CULTURE .
... lessons of experience , and in a word the whole course of our rational life is based upon it . ' One event is always the son of another , and we must 6 never forget the parentage , ' was a remark 4 THE SCIENCE OF CULTURE .
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... course of events . The philosophy of history at large , explaining the past and predicting the future phe- nomena of man's life in the world by reference to general laws , is in fact a subject with which , in the present state of ...
... course of events . The philosophy of history at large , explaining the past and predicting the future phe- nomena of man's life in the world by reference to general laws , is in fact a subject with which , in the present state of ...
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... course of 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 ...
... course of 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 ...
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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